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    Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    Riverside Scene with Figures, Hexagonal Building Left and Horse-drawn Wagon crossing Bridge at Right
    Date
    c.1750-51 (undated)
    Medium
    Graphite and black chalk with black ink on medium, moderately textured, blued-white laid paper
    Dimensions
    Metric: 237 x 356 mm
    Imperial: 9 5/16 x 14 in.
    Collection
    Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven. To license images click here
    Accession Number
    B1977.14.6063
    Wilson Online Reference
    D16
    Provenance
    Giopes sale 10 April 1794 [...] Captain R. Ford; sold Christie's 17 June 1929 (3) bt Lowinsky (14 guineas); T.E. Lowinsky [Lugt 2420a]; Justin Lowinsky; bt Paul Mellon, February 1963; acquired by Yale Center for British Art, 1977
    Signature/inscription
    Unsigned; no inscription
    Collectors' marks
    Recto lower left corner: Capital T on part of oval
    Verso inscriptions
    [1] Top, pencil: 4=0 1-6
    [2] Pencil: L78 68
    [3] Old pencil: No 2
    Critical commentary
    Very beautifully and sensitively drawn. There are signs of pencil lines all round the image, suggesting that it may have been intended as a presentation drawing.
    Previous Cat/Ref Nos
    Object ID: 15149
    Condition/Conservation
    Vertical fold down the centre

    Biographies

    • Robert Archer (1811)
    • Thomas Lowinsky (1892-1947)
    • Paul Mellon (1907-1999)
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