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    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings 32(v) and inside back cover

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    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings 32(v) and inside back cover
    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings 32(v) and inside back cover
    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings 32(v) and inside back cover
    Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings 32(v) and inside back cover
    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 hseet)
    Collection
    Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven. To license images click here
    Accession Number
    B1977.14.359 v32 & ibc
    Wilson Online Reference
    D280/32
    Description
    32(v): Blank
    Inside back cover: No image but written details of Wilson's name and address
    Provenance
    Oldfield Bowles; given to Sir George Beaumont, 1784; thence by descent until 1963, when sold to Paul Mellon
    Signature/inscription
    Inside back cover inscribed in black chalk across upper section: Questo Libro e de Monsû Wilson a la | Caffé delli Inglesi nella Piazza di Spagnia | Roma.
    Related Drawings
    D279 Trinità dei Monti, Rome, The Courtauld Gallery, London
    Critical commentary
    The inscription refers to the English Coffee House, situated on the Piazza di Spagna, which served as a gathering-place for the British community in Rome. For the first part of his lengthy stay there, Wilson resided on the Piazza and apparently adopted the cafe itself as his headquarters. For a likely view from his lodgings see D279.
    Previous Cat/Ref Nos
    Object ID: 6363
    Bibliography
    Sutton & Clements 1968, vol. 1, pp. 32-33; vol. 2, p. 25
    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).
    Updated by Compiler
    2016-09-09 00:00:00

    Work of Art

    Drawings

    • Trinità dei Monti, Rome, The Courtauld Gallery, London

    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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