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    Box Hill, Surrey

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    Box Hill, Surrey
    Box Hill, Surrey
    Box Hill, Surrey
    Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    Box Hill, Surrey
    Date
    c.1760-65 (undated)
    Medium
    Graphite and brown ink on two sheets of laid paper plus two extra strips at the base
    Dimensions
    Metric: 194 x 324 mm
    Imperial: 7 11/16 x 12 3/4 in.
    Collection
    Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven. To license images click here
    Accession Number
    B1977.14.4719
    Wilson Online Reference
    D4
    Exhibited
    New Haven, English Landscape, 1977 (19)
    Provenance
    Presumably Sir George Howland Beaumont, Bart (1753-1827); thence by descent; purchased from Sir George Beaumont, Bart, August 1967
    Signature/inscription
    Inscribed lower right: Box Hill
    Subject
    Box Hill is situated just above Dorking, Surrey, looking south over the Weald of Sussex
    Related Drawings
    D263 Coast Scene, near Barmouth, The British Museum
    D367 Study for Snowdon from Llyn Nantlle, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California
    D370 Conway Castle, The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru
    Related Works by Other Artists
    [1] George Lambert, Box Hill Surrey, with Dorking in the Distance, 1733, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven
    [2] George Lambert, A View of Box Hill, Surrey, 1733, Tate, London
    Critical commentary
    Clearly taken on the spot, the drawing is on two pages of a sketchbook, each 162 mm (6 in.) wide. Other double pages from the same book seem to be D367 and D370. David Solkin proposed D263 as a single page from the same sketchbook and a further page with a drawing of a ruined tower is known but currently unlocated.
    Previous Cat/Ref Nos
    Object ID: 14324
    Bibliography
    New Haven, English Landscape, 1977, pp. 13-14, pl. LVI
    Condition/Conservation
    Trimmed all round up to thick lines, some of which show, for example at the lower left
    Updated by Compiler
    2017-09-05 00:00:00

    Work of Art

    Drawings

    • Coast Scene, near Barmouth, The British Museum
    • Study for Snowdon from Llyn Nantlle The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California
    • Conway Castle, The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru

    Exhibitions

    • New Haven, Yale Center for British Art, 19 April - 17 July 1977

    Biographies

    • Paul Mellon (1907-1999)
    • Sir George Beaumont (1753-1827)

    Documents

    • Christopher White, English Landscape 1630-1850: Drawings, Prints & Books from the Paul Mellon Collection
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