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    On the Tiber

    On the Tiber
    On the Tiber
    On the Tiber
    Private Collection, England / Photograph by John Hammond
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    On the Tiber
    Date
    c.1760 (undated)
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    Metric: 34.2 x 43.2 cm
    Imperial: 13 7/16 x 17 in.
    Collection
    Private Collection, England
    Accession Number
    BB16
    Wilson Online Reference
    P103
    Description
    A gentle landscape beneath a golden calm expanse of sky, articulated only by flocks of birds in flight. The scene is dominated by a square tower or belvedere set diagonally on a cliff top on the right. Below it a river plied by boats gently recedes diagonally into the distance and beyond it are other buildings, with mountains on the horizon. Two men on a bank in the foreground catch the light and add animation to the scene.
    Exhibited
    Brighton 1920 (16); Weston 2011 (15); Gainsborough House 2014 (unnumbered)
    Provenance
    William Parsons; Benjamin Booth (no. 12 in Booth Notes Doc. 9 as Villa in Italy in Grove on the Tiber); The Revd R.S. Booth; Lady Ford; The Revd James Ford; Edmund Ford; Robert Ford; his daughter, Mrs Rogers; Lionel Rogers of Penrose; bequeathed 1961 to the niece of his wife, Joanna, Lady Ford
    Signature/inscription
    Signed with monogram lower right: RW
    Related Drawings
    D344 Banks of the Tiber, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
    Related Prints
    E72/29 Thomas Hastings after Wilson, On the Tiber, The British Museum
    Versions
    See 'Links' tab
    Bibliography
    Booth Notes Doc. 9 (12); WGC, p. 222, pl. 114b version (I); Walpole Society 1998-I, p. 15, BB16; Williams 2011, p. 26
    Link to WG Constable Archive Record
    WGC/1/1/131
    Updated by Compiler
    10/12/2020

    Work of Art

    Drawings

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Banks of the Tiber, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence

    Prints

    • Thomas Hastings after Wilson, On the Tiber, The British Museum

    Versions

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) On the Tiber, Private Collection

    Exhibitions

    • Brighton, Fine Art Galleries, 28 February - 2 May 1920
    • Weston Park, The Granary Art Gallery, 2 April - 3 July 2011
    • Sudbury, Gainsborough's House, 11 January - 31 May 2014

    Biographies

    • Benjamin Booth (1732-1807)
    • The Revd Richard Salwey Booth (1762-1807)
    • Elizabeth Booth (1763-1819)
    • Marianne Booth, Lady Ford (1767-1849)
    • William Parsons (1736-1795)

    Documents

    • William George Constable, Richard Wilson
    • Brinsley Ford and other authors, The Ford Collection
    • Gareth Williams, Masterpieces from the Ford Collection
    • Benjamin Booth, Unpublished Notes, Document 9: List of Wilson's Landscapes with Sizes and former Owners
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