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    View on the Tiber with Rome in the Distance

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    View on the Tiber with Rome in the Distance
    View on the Tiber with Rome in the Distance
    View on the Tiber with Rome in the Distance
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    Artist
    Thomas Hastings after Wilson
    Title
    View on the Tiber with Rome in the Distance
    Date
    Published 1824
    Medium
    Etching on chine collé
    Dimensions
    Metric: 177 x 217 mm
    Imperial: 7 x 8 1/8 in.
    Collection
    The British Museum. To license image, click here
    Accession Number
    1854,0708.95
    Wilson Online Reference
    E72/38
    Description
    Landscape, with a priest, a man and a woman standing together on the wooded bank of the Tiber in the foreground at the centre left. Behind them a fourth figure looks over a wall in front of trees and a tower. Across the Tiber some buildings of Rome, including St Peter's and the Castel San Angelo (Mausoleum of Hadrian), are seen in the distance.
    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 4ft 7 In by 3 ft 3 In.', production details and publication line: 'Painted by R. Wilson.' 'Etched by T. Hastings 1824.'
    Page numbered lower right: 38
    Related Drawings
    D172 A Roman Altar at Palestrina, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
    D302 Ponte Molle, Monte Mario, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California
    Related Paintings
    P64 Rome from the Ponte Molle, National Museum Wales, Cardiff
    P64A A View of the Tiber with Rome in the Distance (Rome from the Ponte Molle), Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven (Lady Ford's painting)
    Related Works by Other Artists
    [1] Francis Towne (1739-1816): The Ponte Molle, watercolour, 1781, The British Museum (Nn,1.20)
    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
    PRA324791
    Bibliography
    Hastings 1825, p. 19, repr.; WGC, p. 222 under pl. 113b; 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.
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    2015-12-09 00:00:00

    Work of Art

    Drawings

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), A Roman Altar at Palestrina, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Ponte Molle, Monte Mario, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California

    Paintings

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Rome from the Ponte Molle, National Museum Wales, Cardiff
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), A View of the Tiber with Rome in the Distance (Rome from the Ponte Molle), Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven

    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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