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Tower and Broken Bridge
Tower and Broken Bridge
Private Collection, England / Photograph by John Hammond
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Artist
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
Title
Tower and Broken Bridge
Date
Later 1770s (undated)
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Metric: 31.8 x 26.4 cm
Imperial: 12 1/2 x 10 3/8 in.
Details
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Collection
Private Collection, England
Accession Number
BB34
Wilson Online Reference
P190
Exhibited
Bangor 1925 (53); Exeter 1946 (73); Weston 2011 (30)
Provenance
Benjamin Booth
;
The Revd J.S. Booth
;
Lady Ford
;
The Revd James Ford
;
Marianne Ford
, Mrs Sanders; Mary Ford; Mrs Geoffrey Vyvyan, Exeter, niece of Mrs Sanders; bequeathed to her son-in-law,
Brinsley Ford
, 1964
Signature/inscription
Unsigned; no inscription
Techniques and materials
The uncertain and generalised facture argue a late date
Subject
Booth noted: 'Qu[ery] on the Anio Maecenas Villa in distance' (Doc. 9, p. 1, no. 4)
Related Prints
E72/34 Thomas Hastings after Wilson,
Untitled (Tower and Broken Bridge)
, The British Museum (1854,0708.91)
Related Paintings
Possible pendant: P191
Tower by a Lake
, Private Collection, England.
Critical commentary
Stylistically this seems to be a work from Wilson's last years, perhaps a pendant of P191.
Bibliography
Booth Notes, Doc. 9 (4); WGC, p. 227, pl. 119b; Walpole Society 1998-I, p. 18, BB34; Williams 2011, p. 40
Link to WG Constable Archive Record
WGC/1/1/136
Work of Art
Prints
Thomas Hastings after Wilson,
Untitled
, The British Museum
Exhibitions
Bangor, University College of North Wales, 4 April - 23 May 1925
Weston Park, The Granary Art Gallery, 2 April - 3 July 2011
Exeter, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, 7 March - 5 April 1946
Biographies
Benjamin Booth (1732-1807)
Sir Brinsley Ford (1908-1999)
The Revd Richard Salwey Booth (1762-1807)
Marianne Booth, Lady Ford (1767-1849)
Documents
William George Constable,
Richard Wilson
Brinsley Ford and other authors,
The Ford Collection
Gareth Williams,
Masterpieces from the Ford Collection
Benjamin Booth, Unpublished Notes, Document 9: List of Wilson's Landscapes with Sizes and former Owners