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Composition: Landscape with Figures on a Bridge
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Composition: Landscape with Figures on a Bridge
Composition: Landscape with Figures on a Bridge
Private Collection, England / Photograph by John Hammond
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Artist
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
Title
Composition: Landscape with Figures on a Bridge
Date
c.1754 (undated)
Medium
Black chalk, enclosed in a thick ruled black chalk border.
Dimensions
Metric: 114 x 153 mm
Imperial: 4 1/2 x 6 in.
Details
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Collection
Private Collection, England
Accession Number
RF88
Wilson Online Reference
D286
Description
In the foreground a group of four figures and a dog stand on a stone bridge across a stream or river. Behind and to the right are large trees and in the middle distance to the left are two figures on another bridge.
Exhibited
Exeter 1946 (43 -
Landscape
)
Provenance
William Lock of Norbury
; his sale, Sotheby's, London 3-7 May 1821; Marianne Ford; thence by descent
Signature/inscription
Unsigned; no inscription
Critical commentary
Close to D281
Homage before a Statue
, Private Collection Collection, England in technique, manner, presentation, dimensions and presumably date
Bibliography
Ford 1951, p. 55, pl. 25
Exhibitions
Exeter, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, 7 March - 5 April 1946
Biographies
William Lock 'of Norbury' (1732-1810)
Sir Brinsley Ford (1908-1999)
Marianne Booth, Lady Ford (1767-1849)
Documents
Brinsley Ford,
The Drawings of Richard Wilson