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    Tower and Broken Bridge

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    Tower and Broken Bridge
    Tower and Broken Bridge
    Tower and Broken Bridge
    Private Collection, England / Photograph by John Hammond
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    Tower and Broken Bridge
    Date
    Later 1770s (undated)
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    Metric: 31.8 x 26.4 cm
    Imperial: 12 1/2 x 10 3/8 in.
    Collection
    Private Collection, England
    Accession Number
    BB34
    Wilson Online Reference
    P190
    Exhibited
    Bangor 1925 (53); Exeter 1946 (73); Weston 2011 (30)
    Provenance
    Benjamin Booth; The Revd J.S. Booth; Lady Ford; The Revd James Ford; Marianne Ford, Mrs Sanders; Mary Ford; Mrs Geoffrey Vyvyan, Exeter, niece of Mrs Sanders; bequeathed to her son-in-law, Brinsley Ford, 1964
    Signature/inscription
    Unsigned; no inscription
    Techniques and materials
    The uncertain and generalised facture argue a late date
    Subject
    Booth noted: 'Qu[ery] on the Anio Maecenas Villa in distance' (Doc. 9, p. 1, no. 4)
    Related Prints
    E72/34 Thomas Hastings after Wilson, Untitled (Tower and Broken Bridge), The British Museum (1854,0708.91)
    Related Paintings
    Possible pendant: P191 Tower by a Lake, Private Collection, England.
    Critical commentary
    Stylistically this seems to be a work from Wilson's last years, perhaps a pendant of P191.
    Bibliography
    Booth Notes, Doc. 9 (4); WGC, p. 227, pl. 119b; Walpole Society 1998-I, p. 18, BB34; Williams 2011, p. 40
    Link to WG Constable Archive Record
    WGC/1/1/136

    Work of Art

    Prints

    • Thomas Hastings after Wilson, Untitled, The British Museum

    Exhibitions

    • Bangor, University College of North Wales, 4 April - 23 May 1925
    • Weston Park, The Granary Art Gallery, 2 April - 3 July 2011
    • Exeter, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, 7 March - 5 April 1946

    Biographies

    • Benjamin Booth (1732-1807)
    • Sir Brinsley Ford (1908-1999)
    • The Revd Richard Salwey Booth (1762-1807)
    • Marianne Booth, Lady Ford (1767-1849)

    Documents

    • William George Constable, Richard Wilson
    • Brinsley Ford and other authors, The Ford Collection
    • Gareth Williams, Masterpieces from the Ford Collection
    • Benjamin Booth, Unpublished Notes, Document 9: List of Wilson's Landscapes with Sizes and former Owners
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