Porta di Po

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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.

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