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Italian Sketchbook - Drawings pp. 7(v) and 8(r)
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Italian Sketchbook - Drawings pp. 7(v) and 8(r)
Italian Sketchbook - Drawings pp. 7(v) and 8(r)
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Artist
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
Title
Italian Sketchbook - Drawings pp. 7(v) and 8(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)
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Collection
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven. To license images click here
Accession Number
B1977.14.359 v7 & r8
Wilson Online Reference
D280/7
Description
8(r): A seated, mourning female figure in antique costume, resting her head on her proper left hand, seen in profile from the right
Provenance
Oldfield Bowles; given to Sir George Beaumont, 1784; thence by descent until 1963, when sold to Paul Mellon
Signature/inscription
Inscribed by Wilson 8(r) upper right corner in black chalk: The Weeping province [?]
Critical commentary
The figure was drawn on the spot, no doubt from an antique sculpture
Previous Cat/Ref Nos
Object ID: 6363
Bibliography
Sutton & Clements 1968
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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