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    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings (front cover)

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    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings (front cover)
    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings (front cover)
    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings (front cover)
    Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings (front cover)
    Date
    1754
    Medium
    Vellum
    Dimensions
    Metric: 281 x 210 mm
    Imperial: 11 1/16 x 8 1/4 in.
    Collection
    Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven. To license images click here
    Accession Number
    B1977.14.359 front cover
    Wilson Online Reference
    D280
    Description
    Book bound in vellum containing 31 pages of blue laid paper with drawings by Wilson and Thomas Jones
    Exhibited
    New Haven, English Landscape, 1977 (15); New Haven 1981 (90); London, Cardiff and New Haven, 1982-83 (39); New Haven 2001 (106)
    Provenance
    Oldfield Bowles; given to Sir George Beaumont, 1784; thence by descent until 1963, when sold to Paul Mellon
    Signature/inscription
    Unsigned; no inscription
    Critical commentary
    Only two sketchbooks by Wilson have survived - the present one (D280-D280/33) and D53-D53/81 Studies and Designs by R. Wilson done in Rome in the Year MDCCLII, Victoria & Albert Museum, London (E.3586-1922). The drawings in the present sketchbook are all by Wilson except for D280/24 p. 24(v) where there is a study of Durham Yard by William Hodges.
    Previous Cat/Ref Nos
    Object ID: 6363
    Bibliography
    Constable 1954, p. 143; Sutton & Clements 1968; Solkin 1982, pp. 164-65
    Updated by Compiler
    2016-09-09 00:00:00

    Exhibitions

    • London, Tate Gallery, Cardiff, National Museum of Wales, and New Haven, Conn., Yale Center for British Art, 3 November 1982 - 19 June 1983
    • New Haven, Yale Center for British Art, 29 July - 20 September 1981
    • New Haven, Yale Center for British Art, 17 May - 2 September 2001

    Biographies

    • William Hodges (1744-1797)
    • Paul Mellon (1907-1999)
    • Oldfield Bowles (1739-1810)
    • Sir George Beaumont (1753-1827)

    Documents

    • William George Constable, 'Richard Wilson: Some Pentimenti'
    • Denys Sutton & Ann Clements, An Italian Sketchbook by Richard Wilson, RA: Drawings made by the Artist in Rome and its Environs in the Year 1754
    This drawing is part of the "Italian Sketchbook Drawings Yale Center for British Art 1754" sketchbook
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