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    The Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice

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    The Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice
    The Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice
    The Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice
    Private Collection, England / Photograph by John Hammond
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    The Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice
    Date
    c.1751 (undated)
    Medium
    Black ink and bistre wash over graphite
    Dimensions
    Metric: 157 x 210 mm
    Imperial: 6 3/16 x 8 1/4 in.
    Collection
    Private Collection, England
    Accession Number
    RF58
    Wilson Online Reference
    D17
    Description
    Palladio's famous island church of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, is seen from the north, across the Grand Canal at the Molo by the Doge's Palace.
    Exhibited
    London 1925 (86A); Exeter 1946 (36); London, Cardiff and New Haven, 1982-83 (12); Birmingham 1993 (55); Conwy 2009 (2); Gainsborough's House 2014 (unnumbered)
    Provenance
    William Lock of Norbury; his sale, Sotheby's, London 3-7 May 1821; Marianne Ford; thence by descent
    Signature/inscription
    Unsigned; no inscription
    Techniques and materials
    This is Wilson's only known study of Venice in pen and wash. He probably experimented with the medium in imitation of contemporary Venetian painters, including Canaletto. Faint outlines in graphite are to be seen in the sky.
    Verso inscriptions
    [1] Laundry list in Wilson's hand: Cravats, Stocks, Pr. Stockings, 1 Silk, Napkins, Night
    Critical commentary
    Wilson arrived in Venice in late October or November 1750, where he stayed for about a year before moving on to Rome at the end of 1751. He seems to have assimilated ideas from contemporary Venetian view-painting and the technique of this drawing suggests that he experimented with the effects of pen and wash in the manner of Canaletto and other vedutisti.
    Bibliography
    Ford 1951, p.18; Solkin 1982, p. 153; Canaletto & England 1993, p. 128; Walpole Society 1998-I, p. 69, RF 58; Lord 2009, repr. p. 12, p. 48 (no. 2)
    Updated by Compiler
    2021-06-26 00:00:00

    Exhibitions

    • London, Tate Gallery, Cardiff, National Museum of Wales, and New Haven, Conn., Yale Center for British Art, 3 November 1982 - 19 June 1983
    • London, National Gallery, Millbank (Tate Gallery), 26 June - 30 September 1925
    • Conwy, Royal Cambrian Academy, 24 October - 23 December 2009
    • Exeter, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, 7 March - 5 April 1946
    • Birmingham City Art Gallery, 14 October 1993 - 9 January 1994
    • Sudbury, Gainsborough's House, 11 January - 31 May 2014

    Biographies

    • William Lock 'of Norbury' (1732-1810)
    • Richard Ford (1796-1858)
    • Sir Brinsley Ford (1908-1999)
    • Marianne Booth, Lady Ford (1767-1849)
    • Sir Francis Clare Ford (1828-1899)
    • John G. Ford (-1917)

    Documents

    • David Solkin, Richard Wilson: The Landscape of Reaction
    • Peter Lord, Richard Wilson. Life & Legacy
    • Brinsley Ford, The Drawings of Richard Wilson
    • Brinsley Ford and other authors, The Ford Collection
    • Michael Liversidge & Jane Farrington, eds, Canaletto & England
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