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    Strada Nomentana - II (View on the Strada Nomentana)

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    Strada Nomentana - II (View on the Strada Nomentana)
    Strada Nomentana - II (View on the Strada Nomentana)
    Strada Nomentana - II (View on the Strada Nomentana)
    Courtesy of the President and Fellows of Magdalen College, Oxford
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    Strada Nomentana - II (View on the Strada Nomentana)
    Date
    1762 or 1766
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    Metric: 40.6 x 50.8 cm
    Imperial: 18 1/2 x 23 1/2 in.
    Collection
    Magdalen College, Oxford. To license image, click here.
    Accession Number
    P0810
    Wilson Online Reference
    P105B
    Description
    A ruined ancient tomb on the banks of a stream at sunset, with a man and a child together with two hounds reflected in the water.To the right are large rocks and trees. A serpentine path traversed by two small figures leads towards a row of trees in the left distance. Further away in the centre are ancient buildings and mountains.
    Exhibited
    Burlington Fine Arts Club Winter Exhibition, 1938-39 (7)
    Provenance
    Col. M.H. Grant; bt May 1935 by Lt Col. R.H.R. Brocklebank, Stratford-upon-Avon; bequeathed to Magdalen College 1965
    Signature/inscription
    Signed and inscribed very faintly on base of fallen column: RW [monogram, R reversed] 1762 [or 6]
    Techniques and materials
    The figures and reflections seem good. The sky is brought down to the horizon in the usual way over the trees, which are painted onto reserved areas. However, the sky is more than usually smooth and unclouded.
    Subject
    The ruin has been identified as the 'Sedia del Diavolo', actually the tomb of Elio Callistio, one of many ancient sepulchres to be found along the Via Nomentana, leading north-east out of Rome. In Wilson's day it was well outside the city but now stands in the Piazza Elio Callistio in the urban Trieste district.
    Related Prints
    E39 Joseph Farington (1747-1821) after Wilson, Twelve Etchings of Views in Italy - In the Strada Nomentana, 1776, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven (B1977.14.21011(h)) and other impressions
    E72/23 Thomas Hastings after Wilson, View on the Strada Nomentana in Italy, The British Museum (1854,0708.80) and other impressions
    Versions
    See 'Links' tab
    Related Works by Other Artists
    [1] Francis Towne (1739-1816): A Sepulchre by the Roadside going from Rome to the Ponte Nomentana, watercolour, 1780, The British Museum (Nn,2.14)
    Critical commentary
    Wilson included this structure in several other paintings, for example P68 Classical Landscape with Venus, Adonis and Cupids, Victoria & Albert Museum. However it is doubtful whether the subject was here intended to do more than signify a generalised image of Roman imperial greatness in decay.
    Previous Cat/Ref Nos
    Sotheby's Reference Number: 794
    Bibliography
    Wright 1824, p. 272 (a version); WGC, pp. 90-91 & 210, pl. 96b; Lt Col. H. Brocklebank, A Turn or Two I'll Walk to Still my Beating Mind: Commentary on a Private Collection, 1955, pp. 35-38, repr.; Solkin 1982, p. 230 under cat. 123
    Link to WG Constable Archive Record
    WGC/1/1/107
    Location featured in work
    The Via Nomentana running from Rome to Nomentum (Mentana), passing near the Alban Hills
    Condition/Conservation
    Recorded by Brocklebank as in an eighteenth-century frame. Relining has caused the unevenness of the diagonal weave canvas to become very apparent.
    Updated by Compiler
    2021-07-15 00:00:00

    Work of Art

    Prints

    • Joseph Farington after Wilson, Twelve Etchings of Views in Italy - In the Strada Nomentana, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven
    • Joseph Farington after Wilson, In the Strada Nomentana, Royal Academy of Arts, London
    • Joseph Farington after Wilson, In the Strada Nomentana, The British Museum
    • Thomas Hastings after Wilson, View in the Strada Nomentana in Italy, The British Museum

    Versions

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Strada Nomentana - II (View on the Strada Nomentana), Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum, Bournemouth
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Strada Nomentana - II (View on the Strada Nomentana), Private Collection, South Africa
    • Ascribed to Wilson, Strada Nomentana - II (View on the Strada Nomentana) (Classical Landscape, Strada Nomentana), National Museum Wales, Cardiff

    Biographies

    • Lieutenant Colonel Richard Hugh Royds Brocklebank (1881-1965)
    • Colonel Maurice Harold Grant (1872-1962)

    Documents

    • William George Constable, Richard Wilson
    • David Solkin, Richard Wilson: The Landscape of Reaction
    • Thomas Wright, Some Account of the Life of Richard WiIson Esq., R.A., collected and arranged by T. Wright, Esq. To which are added various Observations
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