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    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings pp. 6(v) and 7(r)

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    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings pp. 6(v) and 7(r)
    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings pp. 6(v) and 7(r)
    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings pp. 6(v) and 7(r)
    Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings pp. 6(v) and 7(r)
    Date
    1754
    Medium
    Graphite with white and black chalk on medium, rough, blued white wove paper
    Dimensions
    Metric: 281 x 210 mm (each sheet)
    Imperial: 11 1/16 x 8 1/4 in. (each sheet)
    Collection
    Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven. To license images click here
    Accession Number
    B1977.14.359 v6 & r7
    Wilson Online Reference
    D280/6
    Description
    7(r): A distant view from the terrace of the Capuchin monastery near the hilltop town of Genzano about 20 kilometers south west of Rome. Dominating the town is the Palazzo Sforza Cesarini and next to it the church and bell tower of Santa Maria della Cima.
    Provenance
    Oldfield Bowles; given to Sir George Beaumont, 1784; thence by descent until 1963, when sold to Paul Mellon
    Signature/inscription
    7(r) inscribed by Wilson recto upper right corner in black chalk: Gensano [/] from the Capuchins
    Subject
    Genzano (Genzano di Roma since 1873) is a town in the Alban Hills, one of the Castelli Romani. The Cesarini family gained control of it in 1564. Livia Cesarini, last of the line, was the wife of Francesco II Sforza, after both of whom the palazzo depicted took its name.
    Related Drawings
    D313 Capucins at Gensano, Rhode Island Museum of Art, School of Design, Providence
    Related Prints
    E72/6 Thomas Hastings after Wilson, The Lake of Nemi, The British Museum
    Related Paintings
    P72 Lake Nemi and Genzano from the Terrace of the Capuchin Monastery, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
    Critical commentary
    This sketch of Genzano taken on the spot was worked up by Wilson into a presentation drawing for Lord Dartmouth (D313) and a painting for William Lock (P72). These in turn gave rise to an etching by Thomas Hastings (E72/6).
    Previous Cat/Ref Nos
    Object ID: 6363
    Bibliography
    Sutton & Clements 1968, vol. 1, unpaginated and vol. 2, pp. 28-29; Solkin 1978, p. 406, pl. 21
    More Information
    Only two sketchbooks by Wilson have survived - the present one (D280-D280/33) and D53-D53/81 Studies and Designs by R. Wilson done in Rome in the Year MDCCLII, Victoria & Albert Museum, London (E.3586-1922).
    Condition/Conservation
    Some staining on the left sheet (6(v))

    Work of Art

    Drawings

    • Capucins at Gensano, Rhode Island Museum of Art, School of Design, Providence

    Prints

    • Thomas Hastings after Wilson, The Lake of Nemi, The British Museum

    Paintings

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Lake Nemi and Genzano from the Terrace of the Capuchin Monastery, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

    Biographies

    • Paul Mellon (1907-1999)
    • Oldfield Bowles (1739-1810)
    • Sir George Beaumont (1753-1827)

    Documents

    • David Solkin, 'Some New Light on the Drawings of Richard Wilson'
    • Denys Sutton & Ann Clements, An Italian Sketchbook by Richard Wilson, RA: Drawings made by the Artist in Rome and its Environs in the Year 1754
    This drawing is part of the "Italian Sketchbook Drawings Yale Center for British Art 1754" sketchbook
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