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    The Murder

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    The Murder
    The Murder
    The Murder
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    Artist
    Thomas Hastings after Wilson
    Title
    The Murder
    Date
    c.1823 (undated)
    Medium
    Etching on chine collé
    Dimensions
    Metric: 162 x 206 mm
    Imperial: 6 3/8 x 8 1/8 in.
    Collection
    The British Museum. To license image, click here
    Accession Number
    1854,0708.89
    Wilson Online Reference
    E72/32
    Description
    A murder is taking place during a storm involving four figures on a hillside road in the right foreground. On the left an arched bridge leads over a ravine and a round tower is seen in the centre middle ground. Behind is a violent sky with lightning.
    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. | This Composition gave rise to the well known one of Meleager'; production details and publication line: 'Painted by R. Wilson.' 'Etched by T. Hastings.'
    Page numbered lower right: 32
    Related Paintings
    P50A The Murder, Private Collection, England (Lady Ford's painting) and other versions
    P163 Meleager and Atalanta, Tate, London
    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
    PRA324522
    Bibliography
    Hastings 1825, p. 17, repr.; WGC, p. 158 under pl. 14a; Yule 2015
    Updated by Compiler
    2018-01-08 00:00:00

    Work of Art

    Paintings

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), The Murder, Private Collection, England
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Landscape with Banditti: The Murder, National Museum Wales, Cardiff
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Landscape with Banditti, National Museums Northern Ireland Collection Ulster Museum
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) The Unransomed (The Murder), Lady Lever Art Gallery, National Museums Liverpool
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Meleager and Atalanta, Tate, London

    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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