Chair and Sword Hilt

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Artist

Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)

Title

Chair and Sword Hilt

Date

c.1751-52 (undated)

Medium

Black chalk and stump on grey paper, laid down

Dimensions

Metric: 195 x 244 mm
Imperial: 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.

Collection

National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh. To license images click here.

Accession Number

D 4663

Wilson Online Reference

D69

Provenance

Herbert Horne; Sir Edward Marsh; presented through the National Art Collections Fund, 1953

Related Drawings

D68 Still Life with Flask, The British Museum (1953,0509.5)

Critical commentary

There is a sketch of a seated male figure verso. This drawing and D68 Still Life with Flask, The British Museum (1953,0509.5) are both early, most probably executed during Wilson's sojourn in Italy. Both are rare in his output as examples of still-life rather than landscape and they reflect a style of modelling in light and shade then current in Venice.

Bibliography

Ford 1951, pl. 24, p. 55; Baker 2011, pp. 414 & 416 repr.

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2015-02-05 00:00:00

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