Italian Sketchbook - Drawings (back cover)

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Artist

Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)

Title

Italian Sketchbook - Drawings (back cover)

Date

1754

Medium

Vellum

Dimensions

Metric: 281 x 210 mm
Imperial: 11 1/16 x 8 1/4 in.

Collection

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven. To license images click here

Accession Number

B1977.14.359 back cover

Wilson Online Reference

D280/33

Description

Book bound in vellum containing 31 pages of blue laid paper with drawings by Wilson and Thomas Jones

Provenance

Oldfield Bowles; given to Sir George Beaumont, 1784; thence by descent until 1963, when sold to Paul Mellon

Signature/inscription

Unsigned; no inscription

Critical commentary

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). The drawings in the present sketchbook are all by Wilson except for D280/24 p. 24(v) where there is a study of Durham Yard by William Hodges.

Previous Cat/Ref Nos

Object ID: 6363

Bibliography

Sutton & Clements 1968

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2016-09-09 00:00:00

Italian Sketchbook - Drawings (back cover)

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