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    Part of the Amphitheatre at Rome

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    Part of the Amphitheatre at Rome
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    Artist
    Thomas Hastings after Wilson
    Title
    Part of the Amphitheatre at Rome
    Date
    Published 1824
    Medium
    Etching on chine collé
    Dimensions
    Metric: 210 x 170 mm
    Imperial: 8 1/4 x 6 11/16 in.
    Collection
    The British Museum. To license image, click here
    Accession Number
    1854,0708.92
    Wilson Online Reference
    E72/35
    Description
    A view of part of an overgrown amphitheatre, with two men contemplating it through an arch in the right foreground, and hills in the left background
    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 2F 11 I. by F2 .5.'; production details and publication line: 'Painted by R. Wilson.' 'Etched by T. Hastings. | 1824.'
    Page numbered lower right: 35
    Related Drawings
    D205 Colosseum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
    D232 A Ruined Arch, Private Collection, England
    Related Paintings
    Amphitheatre at Rome, location unknown (formerly A. Ford collection, Cornwall); exh. London 1925 (28)
    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
    PRA324728
    Bibliography
    Hastings 1825, repr.; WGC, p. 237 under pl. 143b; Yule 2015, pp. 60 & 69
    Updated by Compiler
    2015-12-09 00:00:00

    Work of Art

    Drawings

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Colosseum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), A Ruined Arch, Private Collection, England

    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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