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    Near Rome

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    Near Rome
    Near Rome
    The Trustees of the British Museum
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    Artist
    Thomas Hastings after Wilson
    Title
    Near Rome
    Date
    1820
    Medium
    Etching on chine collé
    Dimensions
    Metric: 112 x 187 mm
    Imperial: 4 3/8 x 7 3/8 in.
    Collection
    The British Museum. To license image, click here
    Accession Number
    1854,0708.59
    Wilson Online Reference
    E72/2
    Description
    A landscape near Rome, with a couple standing on a riverbank at the centre foreground. There are an ancient altar and stone block nearby at the right with steep rocks and trees on the far bank and mountains in the distance to the left.
    Provenance
    Bought from George Willis, Piazza, Covent Garden, 1854
    Signature/inscription
    Lettered below the image: 'The Original Painting is in the Possession of Lady Ford | NEAR ROME'; production details: 'R. Wilson pinxit | 1768. | T. Hastings fecit | 1820.
    Related Drawings
    D172 A Roman Altar at Palestrina, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
    Versions
    See 'Links' tab
    Related Paintings
    P156 Near Rome, Private Collection, England
    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 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'; containing twenty pages of Introductory and Concluding Remarks by the etcher, including descriptions of Richard Wilson's original paintings.
    Bibliography
    Hastings 1825, repr.; WGC, p. 221 under pl. 111b; 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), A Roman Altar at Palestrina, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford

    Versions

    • Thomas Hastingsafter Wilson, Near Rome, The British Museum

    Paintings

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Near Rome, 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.
    • William George Constable, Richard Wilson
    This print is part of the "Etchings from the Works of Richard Wilson British Museum" sketchbook
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