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    Villa Borghese

    Villa Borghese
    Villa Borghese
    Villa Borghese
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    Artist
    Thomas Hastings after Wilson
    Title
    Villa Borghese
    Date
    Published 1822
    Medium
    Etching on chine collé
    Dimensions
    Metric: 168 x 240 mm
    Imperial: 6 5/8 x 9 7/16 in.
    Collection
    The British Museum. To license image, click here
    Accession Number
    1854,0708.74
    Wilson Online Reference
    E72/17
    Description
    A road crossing a park leads to a partly ruined arch with an adjacent wall at the right, on which two figures are standing behind a rail. A man is seated on a bank in the foreground at left, drawing before a small overgrown arch within a wall.
    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 2.2 ft. long by 1.7ft. broad'; production details and publication line: 'Painted by R. Wilson' 'Etched by THastings | & publd. in London 1822'
    Related Drawings
    D357/1 The Ruined Arch at Kew (recto), Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
    D357/2 Sketch of an Urn (verso), Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
    D357A A Ruin, Arch at Kew Gardens, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea
    Related Paintings
    P108 The Ruined Arch in Kew Gardens, Private Collection, England
    P108A Kew Gardens, Surrey, Ruined Arch, Gloucester City Museum and Art Gallery
    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.
    The title of the present print led to a misidentification of the location, which persisted until 1949.
    Previous Cat/Ref Nos
    PRA324386
    Bibliography
    Hastings 1825; WGC, p. 179 under pl. 41a; 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.
    Updated by Compiler
    09/12/2015

    Work of Art

    Drawings

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), The Ruined Arch at Kew (recto), Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), A Ruin, Arch at Kew Gardens, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Sketch of an Urn (verso), Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford

    Paintings

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), The Ruined Arch in Kew Gardens, Private Collection, England
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Kew Gardens, Surrey, Ruined Arch, Gloucester City Museum and Art Gallery

    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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