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    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings pp. 1(v) and 2(r)

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    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings pp. 1(v) and 2(r)
    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings pp. 1(v) and 2(r)
    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings pp. 1(v) and 2(r)
    Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings pp. 1(v) and 2(r)
    Date
    1754
    Medium
    Graphite with white and black chalk on medium, rough, blued white wove paper
    Dimensions
    Metric: 281 x 210 mm (each sheet)
    Imperial: 11 1/16 x 8 1/4 in. (each sheet)
    Collection
    Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven. To license images click here
    Accession Number
    B1977.14.359 v1 & r2
    Wilson Online Reference
    D280/1
    Provenance
    Oldfield Bowles; given to Sir George Beaumont, 1784; thence by descent until 1963, when sold to Paul Mellon
    Signature/inscription
    1(v) signed recto on adhered drawing lower right, graphite: W;
    2(r) inscribed by Wilson recto lower left, graphite : Aqueducts of Clodian
    Subject
    2(r): The Claudian Aqueduct (Aqua Claudia), completed by the Emperor Claudius, 41-54 AD was one of nine aqueducts of imperial Rome. It was remarkable for the quantity of water it conveyed to the city and was by far the grandest in terms of architectural effect, running for about six miles before it reached the city as a continuous range of lofty arches up to 33 meters (109 ft) high.
    Related Works by Other Artists
    Francis Towne: The Claudian Aqueduct, Rome, watercolour, 1785, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven (B1978.43.170)
    Critical commentary
    The upper section of the left page (1(v)) has adhered to it a small drawing of a landscape with river or lake, distant town and framing tree with figures and a marker stone.
    The inscription on 2(r) probably refers to the Claudian Aqueduct in Rome (see Subject).
    Previous Cat/Ref Nos
    Object ID: 6363
    Bibliography
    Sutton & Clements 1968, vol. 1, unpaginated and vol. 2, p. 27
    More Information
    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).

    Biographies

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

    Documents

    • 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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