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    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings 23(v) and 24(r)

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    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings 23(v) and 24(r)
    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings 23(v) and 24(r)
    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings 23(v) and 24(r)
    Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings 23(v) and 24(r)
    Date
    1754
    Medium
    Graphite with black and white 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 v23 & r24
    Wilson Online Reference
    D280/23
    Description
    23(v): Blank
    24(r): Two studies of a statue of Ceres wearing a thin sleeveless chiton and a long narrow mantle set upon a circular altar
    Provenance
    Oldfield Bowles; given to Sir George Beaumont, 1784; thence by descent until 1963, when sold to Paul Mellon
    Signature/inscription
    Unsigned; no inscription
    Subject
    24(r): A badly damaged Roman luna marble statue of a girl restored as Ceres, goddess of the corn-bearing earth and agriculture, It dates probably from the third or second century AD. and stands upon a circular altar in Greek marble reworked along the upper rim. The latter is adorned with four bucrania, from the horns of which hang fillets and garlands of leaves, flowers and fruit. Above the garlands are ewers (urcei) and flat dishes used for offerings (paterae).
    Critical commentary
    Clements identified and reproduced the sculpture and base and noted that the statue was transferred from the Stanza del Gladiatore to the Galleria of the Museo Capitolino before 1736. During the 18th century it stood upon the base depicted but this is now in the Stanza del Gladiatore.
    Previous Cat/Ref Nos
    Object ID: 6363
    Bibliography
    Sutton & Clements 1968, vol. 1, pp. 22-23; vol. 2, p. 42
    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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