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Classical Landscape with Figures
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Classical Landscape with Figures
Classical Landscape with Figures
The Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery, London
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Artist
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
Title
Classical Landscape with Figures
Date
c.1752-54 (undated)
Medium
Black chalk, stump, touches of white chalk on paper prepared with light brown wash and inlaid on modern cream paper
Dimensions
Metric: 158 mm diameter
Imperial: 6 1/4 in. diameter
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Collection
The Courtauld Gallery, London. To license image, click here.
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.880
Wilson Online Reference
D195
Exhibited
Oxford Arts Club 1937; Courtauld Institute, London May-June 1977 (4)
Provenance
J.P. Heseltine; Sir Robert Witt (bought Walker n.d.); bequeathed by Sir Robert Clermont Witt, 1952
Signature/inscription
Unsigned; no inscription
Verso inscriptions
[1] Old hand in ink, lower right: R Wilson
More Information
Wilson made a number of circular drawings like this, using stump rather than line work for modelling. They were more popular with his fellow artists than with other patrons.
Biographies
Sir Robert Clermont Witt (1872-1952)
John Postle Heseltine (1843-1929)