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    View in the Strada Nomentana in Italy

    View in the Strada Nomentana in Italy
    View in the Strada Nomentana in Italy
    View in the Strada Nomentana in Italy
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    Artist
    Thomas Hastings after Wilson
    Title
    View in the Strada Nomentana in Italy
    Date
    Published August 1822
    Medium
    Etching on chine collé
    Dimensions
    Metric: 183 x 230 mm
    Imperial: 7 1/4 x 9 in.
    Collection
    The British Museum. To license image, click here
    Accession Number
    1854,0708.80
    Wilson Online Reference
    E72/23
    Description
    Landscape, with three figures and two dogs on the bank of a small lake in the foreground. A ruined tower stands behind a large boulder and trees are seen behind a wooden fence nearby at the right
    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 1F.9I by 1F.5I'; production details and publication line: 'Painted by R. Wilson. R.A' 'Etched by T. Hastings and publd. in London Augt. 1822.'
    Page numbered lower right: 21
    Related Prints
    E39 Joseph Farington after Wilson, Twelve Etchings of Views in Italy - In the Strada Nomentana, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven (B1977.14.21011(h)) and other impressions
    Related Paintings
    P105 Strada Nomentana - II Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum, Bournemouth, BORGM 02383 (Lady Ford's painting)
    P105A Ascribed to Wilson, Strada Nomentana - II (View on the Strada Nomentana) (Classical Landscape, Strada Nomentana), National Museum Wales, Cardiff
    P105B Strada Nomentana - II (View on the Strada Nomentana), Magdalen College, Oxford
    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
    PRA324448
    Bibliography
    Hastings 1825; WGC, p. 210 under pl. 96b; 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

    Prints

    • Joseph Farington (1747-1821) after Wilson, Twelve Etchings of Views in Italy - In the Strada Nomentana, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven
    • Joseph Farington (1747-1821) after Wilson, In the Strada Nomentana, Royal Academy of Arts, London
    • Joseph Farington (1747-1821) after Wilson, In the Strada Nomentana, The British Museum

    Paintings

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Strada Nomentana - II Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum, Bournemouth
    • Ascribed to Wilson, Strada Nomentana - II (View on the Strada Nomentana) (Classical Landscape, Strada Nomentana), National Museum Wales, Cardiff
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Strada Nomentana - II (View on the Strada Nomentana), Magdalen College, Oxford

    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
    View sketchbook pages
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