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    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings 29(v) and 30(r)

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    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings 29(v) and 30(r)
    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings 29(v) and 30(r)
    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings 29(v) and 30(r)
    Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings 29(v) and 30(r)
    Date
    1754
    Medium
    Black chalk on medium, rough, blued white wove paper, bound in vellum
    Dimensions
    Metric: 281 x 210 mm (each sheet)
    Imperial: 11 1/16 x 8 1/4 in. (each sheet)
    Collection
    Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven. To license images click here
    Accession Number
    B1977.14.359 v29 & r30
    Wilson Online Reference
    D280/29
    Description
    A view across both sheets showing, through woodland, Lake Albano and buildings on the distant shore
    Provenance
    Oldfield Bowles; given to Sir George Beaumont, 1784; thence by descent until 1963, when sold to Paul Mellon
    Signature/inscription
    29(v) inscribed in black chalk, lower left: Alban Lake from Marino. [sic]
    Subject
    Lake Albano is a volcanic crater lake in the Alban Hills of Lazio, near Monte Cavo, about 20 km (13 miles) south-east of Rome. Marino is one of the towns which make up the Castelli Romani, 16 communes situated nearby in the hills. The buildings faintly indicated in the distance are the monastery of Palazzola.
    Related Drawings
    D314 Monte Cavo in the Alban Hills, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California
    Critical commentary
    This plein-air study was probably used in the composition of D314 Monte Cavo in the Alban Hills, executed in 1754 for Lord Darmouth.
    Previous Cat/Ref Nos
    Object ID: 6363
    Bibliography
    Sutton & Clements 1968, vol. 1, pp. 28-29; vol. 2, p. 49
    More Information
    Only two sketchbooks by Wilson have survived - the present one (D280-D280/33) and D53-D53/81 Studies and Designs by R. Wilson done in Rome in the Year MDCCLII, Victoria & Albert Museum, London (E.3586-1922).

    Work of Art

    Drawings

    • Monte Cavo in the Alban Hills, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California

    Biographies

    • Paul Mellon (1907-1999)
    • Oldfield Bowles (1739-1810)
    • Sir George Beaumont (1753-1827)

    Documents

    • Denys Sutton & Ann Clements, An Italian Sketchbook by Richard Wilson, RA: Drawings made by the Artist in Rome and its Environs in the Year 1754
    This drawing is part of the "Italian Sketchbook Drawings Yale Center for British Art 1754" sketchbook
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