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    On the Arno

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    On the Arno
    On the Arno
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    Artist
    Thomas Hastings after Wilson
    Title
    On the Arno
    Date
    Published 1823
    Medium
    Etching on chine collé
    Dimensions
    Metric: 183 x 235 mm
    Imperial: 7 3/16 x 9 1/4 in.
    Collection
    The British Museum. To license image, click here
    Accession Number
    1854,0708.83
    Wilson Online Reference
    E72/26
    Description
    A peasant couple dance in the left foreground, two men are seated on the ground and a woman with a baby is standing nearby. To the right a figure is studying the inscription on a tomb. Behind them is a river or lake, with ruins and buildings on the shore beyond and a town and line of hills in the distance.
    Provenance
    Bought from George Willis, Piazza, Covent Garden, 1854
    Signature/inscription
    Lettered below the image with the title, 'The Original is in the Possession of J Hawker Esqr. | From the Collection of Lady Ford.'; production details and publication line: 'Painted by R. Wilson.' 'Etched by T. Hastings 1823 | & published in London by | Robinson Hurst & Co. Cheapside'
    Related Paintings
    P177 River Mouth with Peasants Dancing, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Neue Pinakothek, Munich and other versions
    Critical commentary
    From a series of forty etchings after paintings by Richard Wilson and additional title page, bound in a volume in red tooled leather with gold decorative border, lettered on the spine with 'Wilson's | Etchings | by | Hastings'; the title page lettered in black and red: 'Etchings, | from the Works | of | [ facsimile of signature below portrait] Ric. Wilson | with Some Memoirs of his Life, &c. | by Thomas Hastings, Esq. | Collector of His Majesty's Customs. | "Non Ductus Officio Sed Amore Operis." Quintillian. | Published by Hurst, Robinson & Co. Cheapside, London. | Johnson, Typ. Apollo Press, 1825. Brook Street, Holborn'; containing twenty pages of Introductory and Concluding Remarks by the etcher, including descriptions of Richard Wilson's original paintings.
    Previous Cat/Ref Nos
    PRA324475
    Bibliography
    Hastings 1825, repr.; WGC, p. 217 under pls 104c and 105a; Yule 2015, pp. 60 & 69
    More Information
    George Willis was an antiquarian book dealer, who occasionally published books and prints. His firm was active from 1832-1856 and sold many prints to the British Museum. In 1856 it merged with Thomas Sotheran to become Willis & Sotheran.
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    2015-12-09 00:00:00

    Work of Art

    Paintings

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), River Mouth with Peasants Dancing (Mediterranean Coastal Landscape at Dusk), Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Neue Pinakothek, Munich
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), River Mouth with Peasants Dancing, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), River Mouth with Peasants dancing ('Evening'), Private Collection

    Biographies

    • Marianne Booth, Lady Ford (1767-1849)
    • Captain Thomas Hastings (1778-1854)

    Documents

    • Thomas Hastings, Etchings from the Works of Ric. Wilson, with some Memoirs of his Life &c.
    This print is part of the "Etchings from the Works of Richard Wilson British Museum" sketchbook
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