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    Porta di Po

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    Porta di Po
    Porta di Po
    Porta di Po
    Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Bequest of Warren H. Lowenhaupt
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    Porta di Po
    Date
    1751 (undated)
    Medium
    Red chalk
    Dimensions
    Metric: 162 x 200 mm
    Imperial: 6 3/8 x 7 7/8 in.
    Collection
    Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
    Accession Number
    1967.482
    Wilson Online Reference
    D415
    Exhibited
    London 1925 (74B)
    Provenance
    By descent to Captain Richard Ford, 53, Ennismore Gardens, London S.W.; Christie's, 17 June 1929 (12 - bt by Parsons with D22 Ponte Vigo, Chioggia and two others (£27.6s.)) [...] Bequest of Warren H. Lowenhaupt, 1967
    Signature/inscription
    Inscribed upper left: Porta di Po
    Verso inscriptions
    [1] Upper right, pencil: 397 [at 90 degrees]
    [2] Lower right, pencil: 11 [illegible] 12
    [3] Lower left, pencil: 1967.482
    Critical commentary
    Probably one of a series of drawings made by Wilson during his journey from Venice to Rome during the winter of 1751 in the company of William Lock and Thomas Jenkins. The River Po, which runs across northern Italy from west to east, passes through Ferrara, which Wilson visited. If recording a precise location this drawing may have been executed in the neighbourhood of Porto Viro, the last major port before the river empties into the Adriatic.

    Exhibitions

    • London, National Gallery, Millbank (Tate Gallery), 26 June - 30 September 1925

    Biographies

    • Captain Richard Ford (1860-1940)
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