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    Landscape (River, Sea Coast and circular Ruin)

    Landscape (River, Sea Coast and circular Ruin)
    Landscape (River, Sea Coast and circular Ruin)
    Landscape (River, Sea Coast and circular Ruin)
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    Artist
    Thomas Hastings after Wilson
    Title
    Landscape (River, Sea Coast and circular Ruin)
    Date
    Published September 1824
    Medium
    Etching on chine collé
    Dimensions
    Metric: 176 x 217 mm
    Imperial: 6 15/16 x 8 1/2in.
    Collection
    The British Museum. To license image, click here
    Accession Number
    1854,0708.97
    Wilson Online Reference
    E72/40
    Description
    A classical landscape, with a man and two women conversing by a lake or river on a high bank near an open sarcophagus in the left foreground. To the right are two arches of a ruined bridge or embankment with a ruined temple above and behind. There are trees in the right foreground and hills in the distance.
    Provenance
    Bought from George Willis, Piazza, Covent Garden, 1854
    Signature/inscription
    Lettered below the image with the title (Landscape.), 'The Original is in the Possession of Lady Ford. Length of Painting abt. 3 feet 8 In.'; production details and publication line: 'Painted by Richard Wilson.' 'Etched by T. Hastings. | Sept. 1824.'
    Page numbered lower right: 40.
    Related Drawings
    D271 Bay of Baiae - Temple of Venus, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
    Related Prints
    E64 William Pengree Sherlock after Wilson, River, Sea-Coast and circular Ruin ('Morning'), The British Museum
    E73 Samuel William Reynolds after Wilson, Morning, The British Museum and other impressions
    Related Paintings
    P92 An Italian Landscape (Morning) Classical Landscape, Private Collection, England
    P92A River, Sea Coast and circular Ruin, Private Collection, England
    P92B An Italian Landscape, Morning (River, Sea-Coast and circular Ruin), Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven
    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
    PRA324810
    Bibliography
    Hastings 1825; WGC, p. 217 under pl. 106a; 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.
    Updated by Compiler
    09/12/2015

    Work of Art

    Drawings

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Bay of Baiae - Temple of Venus, Victoria & Albert Museum, London

    Prints

    • William Pengree Sherlock after Wilson, River, Sea-Coast and circular Ruin ('Morning'), The British Museum
    • Samuel William Reynolds after Wilson, Morning, The British Museum
    • Samuel William Reynolds after Wilson, Morning,The British Museum
    • Samuel William Reynolds after Wilson, Landscape with Ruins (Morning), Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
    • Samuel William Reynolds after Wilson, Morning, National Museum Wales, Cardiff
    • Samuel William Reynolds after Wilson, Morning, Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery

    Paintings

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), An Italian Landscape (Morning) Classical Landscape, Private Collection, England
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), River, Sea Coast and circular Ruin, Private Collection, England
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), An Italian Landscape, Morning (River, Sea-Coast and circular Ruin), Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven

    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
    View sketchbook pages
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