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    Part of Mecaenas' Villa at Tivoli

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    Artist
    Thomas Hastings after Wilson
    Title
    Part of Mecaenas' Villa at Tivoli
    Date
    Published 1824
    Medium
    Etching on chine collé
    Dimensions
    Metric: 210 x 170 mm
    Imperial: 8 1/4 x 6 11/16 in.
    Collection
    The British Museum. To license image, click here
    Accession Number
    1854,0708.94
    Wilson Online Reference
    E72/37
    Description
    Two women are standing in the foreground at the ruins of the so-called Villa of Maecenas about to enter a chamber on the right. Opposite them antique fragments are propped against the walls and behind them receding vaults are illuminated by rays of light streaming through a hole in the overgrown roof. Trees, fields and distant hills are visible in the background at left.
    Provenance
    Bought from George Willis, Piazza, Covent Garden, 1854
    Signature/inscription
    Lettered below the image with the title, 'The Original is in the Possession of Lady Ford 17 Long by 13 1/2 Wide - ', production details and publication line: 'Painted by R. Wilson.' 'Etched by T. Hastings. | 1824.'
    Page numbered lower right: 37
    Related Drawings
    D130 The Villa of Maecenas at Tivoli, The British Museum
    Related Prints
    E43 Michael 'Angelo' Rooker after Wilson, Twelve Etchings of Views in Italy - Villa of Maecenas at Tivoli, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven and other impressions
    E88 Thomas Abiel Prior after Wilson, Ruins in Italy, National Museum Wales, Cardiff
    Related Paintings
    P137 Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), The Villa of Maecenas at Tivoli, Tate, London
    P137A Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), The Villa of Maecenas at Tivoli, Gloucester City Museum and Art Gallery (Lady Ford's painting)
    P137B Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Study at Maecenas' Villa, Tivoli, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
    P137C Studio of Wilson, The Villa of Maecenas at Tivoli (Ruins at the Villa of Maecenas, Tivoli), Magdalen College, Oxford
    P137D Wilson, The Villa of Maecenas at Tivoli, Private Collection, USA
    P137E Studio of Wilson, Villa Maecenas, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
    Critical commentary
    From a series of forty etchings after paintings by Richard Wilson and additional title page, bound in a volume in red tooled leather with gold decorative border, lettered on the spine with 'Wilson's | Etchings | by | Hastings'; the title page lettered in black and red: 'Etchings, | from the Works | of | [ facsimile of signature below portrait] Ric. Wilson | with Some Memoirs of his Life, &c. | by Thomas Hastings, Esq. | Collector of His Majesty's Customs. | "Non Ductus Officio Sed Amore Operis." Quintillian. | Published by Hurst, Robinson & Co. Cheapside, London. | Johnson, Typ. Apollo Press, 1825. Brook Street, Holborn'; containing twenty pages of Introductory and Concluding Remarks by the etcher, including descriptions of Richard Wilson's original paintings.
    Previous Cat/Ref Nos
    PRA324738
    Bibliography
    Hastings 1825, p. 19, repr.; WGC, p. 205 under pl. 87a; Yule 2015, pp. 60 & 69
    More Information
    George Willis was an antiquarian book dealer, who occasionally published books and prints. His firm was active from 1832-1856 and sold many prints to the British Museum. In 1856 it merged with Thomas Sotheran to become Willis & Sotheran.
    Updated by Compiler
    2015-12-09 00:00:00

    Work of Art

    Drawings

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), The Villa of Maecenas at Tivoli, The British Museum

    Prints

    • Michael 'Angelo' Rooker (1746-1801), after Wilson, Twelve Etchings of Views in Italy - Villa of Maecenas at Tivoli, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven
    • Michael 'Angelo' Rooker (1746-1801), after Wilson, Villa of Maecenas at Tivoli, The British Museum
    • Michael 'Angelo' Rooker (1746-1801), after Wilson, Villa of Mæcenas at Tivoli, The British Museum
    • Michael 'Angelo' Rooker (1746-1801), after Wilson, Villa of Mæcenas at Tivoli, Royal Academy of Arts, London
    • Michael 'Angelo' Rooker (1746-1801), after Wilson, Villa of Mæcenas at Tivoli, National Museum Wales, Cardiff
    • Michael 'Angelo' Rooker (1746-1801), after Wilson, Villa of Mæcenas at Tivoli, National Museum Wales, Cardiff
    • Thomas Abiel Prior after Wilson, Ruins in Italy, National Museum Wales, Cardiff

    Paintings

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), The Villa of Maecenas at Tivoli, Tate, London
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), The Villa of Maecenas at Tivoli, Gloucester City Museum and Art Gallery
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Study at Maecenas' Villa, Tivoli, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
    • Studio of Wilson, The Villa of Maecenas at Tivoli (Ruins at the Villa of Maecenas, Tivoli), Magdalen College, Oxford
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), The Villa of Maecenas at Tivoli, Private Collection, USA
    • Studio of Wilson, Villa Maecenas, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario

    Biographies

    • Captain Thomas Hastings (1778-1854)
    • Marianne Booth, Lady Ford (1767-1849)

    Documents

    • Thomas Hastings, Etchings from the Works of Ric. Wilson, with some Memoirs of his Life &c.
    This print is part of the "Etchings from the Works of Richard Wilson British Museum" sketchbook
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