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    Villa Emelia

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    Villa Emelia
    Villa Emelia
    Villa Emelia
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    Artist
    Thomas Hastings after Wilson
    Title
    Villa Emelia
    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
    1854,0708.61
    Wilson Online Reference
    E72/4
    Description
    Part of a two-storey house can be seen at the left, with a figure standing on the outside staircase. Other figures are seated under a conifer tree and near fragments from a classical building in the foreground on the right. There is a wall at the right and buildings amongst the trees beyond.
    Provenance
    Bought from George Willis, Piazza, Covent Garden, 1854
    Signature/inscription
    Lettered below the image with the title, 'The Original is in the Possession of Lady Ford of Gloucester Place.'; production details and publication line: 'Painted by R. Wilson, | Etched by T. Hastings. 1820 | Pubd. as th [sic] Act directs by T. Hastings Sepr. 1820.'
    Related Drawings
    D280/20 Italian Sketchbook - Drawings, pp. 20(v) and 21(r), Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
    Versions
    See 'Links' tab
    Related Paintings
    P117 Villa Emiliana near Rome, Private Collection, England
    P117A Villa Emiliana near Rome, Private Collection, Scotland
    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
    PPA324263
    Bibliography
    Hastings 1825, repr.; WGC, p. 199 under pl. 76b; 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.
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    2015-12-09 00:00:00

    Work of Art

    Drawings

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Italian Sketchbook - Drawings pp. 20(v) and 21(r), Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven

    Versions

    • Thomas Hastingsafter Wilson, Villa Emelia, The British Museum

    Paintings

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Villa Emiliana near Rome, Private Collection, England
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Villa Emiliana near Rome, Private Collection, Scotland

    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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