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    View in Italy (A Summer Evening ('On the Arno' - II))

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    View in Italy (A Summer Evening ('On the Arno' - II))
    View in Italy (A Summer Evening ('On the Arno' - II))
    View in Italy (A Summer Evening ('On the Arno' - II))
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    Artist
    Thomas Hastings after Wilson
    Title
    View in Italy (A Summer Evening ('On the Arno' - II))
    Date
    Published 1821
    Medium
    Etching on chine collé
    Dimensions
    Metric: 180 x 227 mm
    Imperial: 7 x 8 15/16 in.
    Collection
    The British Museum. To license image, click here
    Accession Number
    1854,0708.66
    Wilson Online Reference
    E72/9
    Description
    An Italianate rural landscape, with a high foreground overlooking a wide river with a broken tree trunk to the left and a boy fishing with a seated girl playing with her child in the centre. In the middle distance is a rocky cliff to the right, surmounted by a round tower and other buildings. There is a shallow bank to the left, with an ancient building, hazy plains and mountains in the distance. The delicate light is reflected in the river and enhances the sense of space.
    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', production details and publication line: 'Painted by R. Wilson' 'Etched by T. Hastings. | and published in London. 1821'
    Related Paintings
    P97 A Summer Evening ('On the Arno' - II), Private Collection, England plus other versions
    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
    PPA324290
    Bibliography
    Hastings 1825, repr.; WGC, p. 214, under pl. 100b; 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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    2017-12-10 00:00:00

    Work of Art

    Paintings

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), A Summer Evening ('On the Arno' - II), Private Collection, England
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), A Summer Evening ('On the Arno' - II), Tate, London
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) and Studio, A Summer Evening ('On the Arno' - II), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782 A Summer Evening ('On the Arno' - II), Private Collection, England

    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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