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    Lake of Albano

    Lake of Albano
    Lake of Albano
    Lake of Albano
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    Artist
    Thomas Hastings after Wilson
    Title
    Lake of Albano
    Date
    Published September 1820
    Medium
    Etching on chine collé
    Dimensions
    Metric: 143 x 208 mm
    Imperial: 5 5/8 x 8 3/16 in
    Collection
    The British Museum. To license image, click here
    Accession Number
    1854,0708.60
    Wilson Online Reference
    E72/3
    Description
    View of a lake from a hillside, with a seated figure sketching in the centre foreground and a bearded man standing to his left. There is a hillside town in the middle ground at the left and mountains beyond the lake.
    Provenance
    Bought from George Willis, Piazza, Covent Garden, 1854
    Signature/inscription
    Lettered below the image: 'The Original is in the Possession of Lady Ford | LAKE OF ALBANO '; production details and publication line: 'R. Wilson pinxit | 1768. in Rome' and T. Hastings fecit | 1820 in Londini | Published as the Act directs by T. Hastings | Sepr. 1820'
    Related Drawings
    D221 Lake Nemi with Two Friars, Victoria & Albert Museum (DYCE.643)
    Versions
    See 'Links' tab
    Related Paintings
    P159 Lake Nemi with two Friars, Private Collection, England
    P159A Lake Nemi with two Friars, Private Collection
    Critical commentary
    Despite the inscription Wilson had long since left Italy by 1768 and the lake depicted is Nemi, not Albano. As noted by Constable, Hastings's incorrect title no doubt led to later mistakes. E72/3 is 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 is 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'. The volume contains twenty pages of Introductory and Concluding Remarks by the etcher, including descriptions of Richard Wilson's original paintings.
    Bibliography
    Hastings 1825; WGC, p.207 under pl. 94b; 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.

    Work of Art

    Drawings

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Lake Nemi with Two Friars, Victoria & Albert Museum, London

    Versions

    • Thomas Hastingsafter Wilson, Lake of Albano, The British Museum

    Paintings

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Lake Nemi with two Friars, Private Collection, England
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Lake Nemi with Two Friars, Private Collection

    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
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