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    A Ruined Arch

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    A Ruined Arch
    A Ruined Arch
    A Ruined Arch
    Private Collection, England / Photograph by John Hammond
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    A Ruined Arch
    Date
    c.1753-54 (undated)
    Medium
    Black chalk heightened with white on grey paper
    Dimensions
    Metric: 265 x 190 mm
    Imperial: 10 7/16 x 7 1/2 in.
    Collection
    Private Collection, England
    Accession Number
    RF82
    Wilson Online Reference
    D232
    Description
    One ancient arch stands above another, both partly overgrown
    Exhibited
    Exeter 1946 (28 - A Ruin); Birmingham 1948-49 (99c); London 1949 (98c); London 1969 (169); Gainsborough 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
    Related Prints
    E72/35 Thomas Hastings after Wilson, Part of the Amphitheatre at Rome, The British Museum, and other impressions
    Critical commentary
    One of a large collection of Wilson's Italian drawings originally owned by William Lock of Norbury Park. Most of these were studies of nature dating from Wilson's journey to and stay in Rome. Michael Kitson noted that like his predecessor, Claude, Wilson enjoyed sketching ruins and his work similarly often conveys a nostalgia for Antiquity, though his approach was more openly sentimental than Claude's and perhaps owes as much to seventeenth-century Dutch landscapists in Rome as to Claude himself.
    Bibliography
    M. Kitson & D. Howard, The Art of Claude Lorraine, London, Arts Council, 1969, p. 71; Walpole Society 1998-I, p. 71, RF 82
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    2019-01-15 00:00:00

    Work of Art

    Prints

    • Thomas Hastings after Wilson, Part of the Amphitheatre at Rome, The British Museum

    Exhibitions

    • Birmingham City Art Gallery, 17 November 1948 - 9 January 1949
    • Exeter, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, 7 March - 5 April 1946
    • London, Hayward Gallery, 7 November - 14 December 1969
    • Sudbury, Gainsborough's House, 11 January - 31 May 2014

    Biographies

    • William Lock 'of Norbury' (1732-1810)

    Documents

    • Brinsley Ford and other authors, The Ford Collection
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