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    Tower by a Lake

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    Tower by a Lake
    Tower by a Lake
    Private Collection, England / Photograph by John Hammond
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    Tower by a Lake
    Date
    Later 1770s (undated)
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    Metric: 35 x 29.8 cm
    Imperial: 13 3/4 x 11 3/4 in.
    Collection
    Private Collection, England
    Accession Number
    BB35
    Wilson Online Reference
    P191
    Description
    A man with a bundle on a pole and a child are walking towards a ruined tower and buildings along a path on the shore of a river or lake. More figures are seen closer to the ruins in the middle ground. Two trees intertwine in the foreground at the right and the scene is illuminated by a ray of light streaming through a break in the thick clouds.
    Exhibited
    Exeter 1946 (76 - Ruin near Venice); Weston 2011 (31)
    Provenance
    Benjamin Booth ; The Revd R.S. Booth ; Lady Ford ; The Revd James Ford ; Marianne Ford ; Mrs Sanders; Mrs Geoffrey Vyvyan, Exeter, niece of Mrs Sanders; bequeathed to her son-in-law, Brinsley Ford , 1964
    Signature/inscription
    Unsigned; no inscription
    Related Prints
    E72/36 Hastings after Wilson, Ruin near Venice, The British Museum (1854,0708.93)
    Critical commentary
    Stylistically this seems to be a work from Wilson's last years, perhaps a pendant of P190 Tower and Broken Bridge, Private Collection, England.
    Bibliography
    Booth Notes Doc. 8, p. 2; Booth Notes, Doc. 9 (6); WGC, p. 227, pl. 119c; Walpole Society 1998-I, pp. 18-19, BB35; Williams 2011, p. 42
    Link to WG Constable Archive Record
    WGC/1/1/136

    Work of Art

    Prints

    • Thomas Hastings after Wilson, Ruin near Venice, The British Museum

    Paintings

    • Tower and Broken Bridge, Private Collection England

    Exhibitions

    • 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)
    • Chambers Hall (1786-1855)
    • Sir Brinsley Ford (1908-1999)
    • The Revd Richard Salwey Booth (1762-1807)
    • Marianne Booth, Lady Ford (1767-1849)
    • Sir Richard Ford (1758-1806)

    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 8: List of Wilson's Paintings and Works by Old Masters and other Artists in Booth's Collection
    • Benjamin Booth, Unpublished Notes, Document 9: List of Wilson's Landscapes with Sizes and former Owners
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