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    A Rock Dwelling

    A Rock Dwelling
    A Rock Dwelling
    A Rock Dwelling
    Private Collection, England / Photograph by John Hammond
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    A Rock Dwelling
    Date
    c.1754 (undated)
    Medium
    Black chalk
    Dimensions
    Metric: 115 x 202 mm
    Imperial: 4 1/2 x 7 15/16 in.
    Collection
    Private Collection, England
    Accession Number
    RF104
    Wilson Online Reference
    D296
    Description
    Rising towards the right is a cliff-face dotted with openings of rock dwellings. A woman and child stand in one of these at ground level, perhaps communicating with a figure in the left foreground.
    Provenance
    William Lock of Norbury; his sale, Sotheby's, London 3-7 May 1821; Ford family; by descent
    Signature/inscription
    Signed lower left: R.W.f
    No inscription
    Subject
    The setting may be the sassi in the barren town of Matera, Basilicata, southern Italy. Lying between Calabria and Puglia the area would have been accessible to Wilson from Naples. These rock dwellings were in his day places of abject poverty but since 1993 have been a World Heritage Site.
    Bibliography
    Walpole Society 1998-I, p. 73, RF104
    Condition/Conservation
    Enclosed in a lightly drawn chalk border
    Updated by Compiler
    2016-10-03 00:00:00

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

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    • Brinsley Ford and other authors, The Ford Collection
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