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    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings pp. 12(v) and 13(r)

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    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings pp. 12(v) and 13(r)
    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings pp. 12(v) and 13(r)
    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings pp. 12(v) and 13(r)
    Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings pp. 12(v) and 13(r)
    Date
    1754
    Medium
    Graphite with black and white 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 v12 & r13
    Wilson Online Reference
    D280/12
    Description
    12(v) is blank apart from an inscription
    13(r) depicts a damaged statue of a dog-faced baboon on a damaged plinth with a Greek inscription. The animal is seated frontally at a slight angle to the right with front paws resting on knees.
    Provenance
    Oldfield Bowles; given to Sir George Beaumont, 1784; thence by descent until 1963, when sold to Paul Mellon
    Signature/inscription
    12(v) is marked illegibly in the upper left corner
    13(r): inscribed by Wilson in black chalk upper right: In the Capital [sic]
    Plinth of sculpture inscribed in Greek letters: PHIDIAS [/] AMM [/] PHIDIOU [/] EPOIOI [sic]
    Subject
    The statue was discovered in medieval times close to the Temple of Isis and Serapis, which stood near the Piazza Minerva. It was in the Museo Capitolino until 1838.
    Critical commentary
    The inscription on the plinth is an abbreviation of the original inscription on the plinth itself, recording in Greek that 'Phidias and Ammonius sons of Phidias made it.'
    Previous Cat/Ref Nos
    Object ID: 6363
    Bibliography
    Sutton & Clements 1968, vol. 1, p. 12, vol. 2, pp. 33-34
    More Information
    The ancient Greek sculptor, painter and architect, Phidias (c. 480-430 BC), made the statue of Zeus at Olympia, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and designed the statues of the goddess Athena on the Athenian Acropolis.
    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).

    Biographies

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

    Documents

    • 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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