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    View of Lareci near Rome

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    View of Lareci near Rome
    View of Lareci near Rome
    View of Lareci near Rome
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    Artist
    Thomas Hastings after Wilson
    Title
    View of Lareci near Rome
    Date
    Published July 1821
    Medium
    Etching on chine collé
    Dimensions
    Metric: 145 x 233 mm
    Imperial: 5 11/16 x 9 3/16 in.
    Collection
    The British Museum. To license image, click here
    Accession Number
    1854,0708.68
    Wilson Online Reference
    E72/11
    Description
    Three figures are seated near the entrance to a cave at the right; a road leads past a milestone through trees to a church in the far left background
    Provenance
    Bought from George Willis, Piazza, Covent Garden, 1854
    Signature/inscription
    Lettered below the image with the title and above: 'The Original is in the Possession of Lady Ford.'; production details and publication line: 'Painted by R. Wilson. RA' ' Etched by T. Hastings | published July 1821'
    Subject
    Located between the lakes of Nemi and Albano on the Via Appia Nuova, southeast of Rome, Ariccia was celebrated for its groves, thought to have been the hunting grounds of the goddess Diana. The area had been a haunt of Gaspard Dughet (1615-1675). whom Wilson greatly admired.
    Related Drawings
    D282 A Church at Ariccia, Private Collection, England
    D282A Landscape near Rome, Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery
    D326 Ariccia near Rome, The British Museum (1881,0212.24)
    Related Paintings
    P46 Ariccia - I, Tate, London and 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
    PPA324305
    Bibliography
    Hastings 1825, p. 13, repr.; WGC, p. 193 under pl. 67b; 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

    • A Church at Ariccia, Private Collection, England
    • Landscape near Rome, Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery
    • Ariccia near Rome, The British Museum

    Paintings

    • Ariccia I, Tate, London
    • Ariccia - I, Private Collection, England
    • Ariccia - I (La Riccia, near Albano, Italy), Gloucester City Museum and Art Gallery

    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.
    This print is part of the "Etchings from the Works of Richard Wilson British Museum" sketchbook
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