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    Italian Scenery (River and Farmhouse - I)

    Italian Scenery (River and Farmhouse - I)
    Italian Scenery (River and Farmhouse - I)
    Italian Scenery (River and Farmhouse - I)
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    Artist
    Thomas Hastings after Wilson
    Title
    Italian Scenery (River and Farmhouse - I)
    Date
    Published 22 March 1822
    Medium
    Etching on chine collé
    Dimensions
    Metric: 164 x 222 mm
    Imperial: 6 7/16 x 8 3/4 in.
    Collection
    The British Museum. To license image, click here
    Accession Number
    1854,0708.75
    Wilson Online Reference
    E72/18
    Description
    Landscape with a lake and boating figures; a man and a woman with a dog converse under framing trees in the foreground at left. A prominent building stands in the middle ground with hills 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. (1.9 ft. by 1.5 ft.)'; production details and publication line: 'Painted by R. Wilson, R.A.' 'Etched by T Hastings. | & published in London March 22 | 1822'
    Related Paintings
    P35 River and Farmhouse -I (Italian River Scene with Figures), Victoria & Albert Museum, London
    P35A River and Farmhouse - I (River Scene with Lime Kiln), The Bowes Museum
    P35B River and Farmhouse - I (River with Lime Kiln), Petworth House, National Trust
    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
    PRA324392
    Bibliography
    Hastings 1825; WGC, p. 216 under pl. 103a; 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
    03/01/2018

    Work of Art

    Paintings

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), River and Farmhouse -I (Italian River Scene with Figures), Victoria & Albert Museum, London
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), River and Farmhouse - I (River Scene with Lime Kiln), The Bowes Museum
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), River and Farmhouse - I (River with Lime Kiln), Petworth House, National Trust

    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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