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    On the Tiber

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    On the Tiber
    On the Tiber
    On the Tiber
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    Artist
    Thomas Hastings after Wilson
    Title
    On the Tiber
    Date
    1823
    Medium
    Etching on chine collé
    Dimensions
    Metric: 158 x 209 mm
    Imperial: 6 1/4 x 8 1/4 in.
    Collection
    The British Museum. To license image, click here
    Accession Number
    1854,0708.86
    Wilson Online Reference
    E72/29
    Description
    A seated and a walking man are seen on a high riverbank at the centre foreground. To the left below two figures appear in a boat. On the right a tower crowns a tall promontory with two arches at its base. Other buildings are silhouetted on the opposite bank of the river and beyond are distant hills.
    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 Lady Ford | 17 Inches by 13 1/4 Inches'; production details and publication line: 'Painted by R. Wilson.' 'Etched by T. Hastings 1823'
    Page numbered lower right: 29
    Related Drawings
    D344 Banks of the Tiber, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
    Related Paintings
    P103 On the Tiber, Private Collection, England
    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
    PRA324502
    Bibliography
    Hastings 1825, repr.; WGC p. 222 under pl. 114b; 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

    Drawings

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

    Paintings

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

    Biographies

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

    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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