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    Torre del Fiscale, near Rome

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    Torre del Fiscale, near Rome
    Torre del Fiscale, near Rome
    Torre del Fiscale, near Rome
    Gloucester City Museum and Art Gallery
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    Torre del Fiscale, near Rome
    Date
    Late 1770s (undated)
    Medium
    Oil on canvas laid down on mahogany board
    Dimensions
    Metric: 31 x 24.4 cm
    Imperial: 12 3/16 x 9 5/8 in.
    Collection
    Gloucester City Museum and Art Gallery. To license images click here.
    Accession Number
    00304
    Wilson Online Reference
    P187
    Exhibited
    Cheltenham Art Gallery, 5-17 July 1965, Fine Paintings from Gloucestershire Houses and other Sources (54); Gloucester 2014 (unnumbered)
    Provenance
    Captain E.N.F. Loyd; Christie's 30 April 1937 (139 An Archway), bt Martin; Col. M.H. Grant; with Spink; Stanley Marling; bequeathed to Gloucester City Museum and Art Gallery, 1963
    Signature/inscription
    Unsigned; no inscription
    Labels
    [1] Verso upper centre exhibition print and typescript: Twenty-first Cheltenham Festival [...] Exhibition at Cheltenham Art Gallery | Fine Paintings from Gloucestershire Houses and other Sources | 5th to 17th July 1965 | Catalogue No. 54
    [2] Verso upper centre 19th century manuscript: Old Arch and | Landscape | By Richard Wilson
    [3] Verso centre C18 manuscript: Arch | By Richard Wilson
    [4] Verso left centre inverted manuscript: 97
    [5] Verso lower centre typescript: VIEW OF THE TORRE DEL FISCALE | near ROME | by | RICHARD WILSON R. A. | 1714-1782 | From the Collection of Col. M.H. Grant
    Subject
    The Torre del Fiscale, or Tower of Taxation, a square brick tower, is near Rome by the Via Appia Nuova. It was originally placed at the bend of an aqueduct to strengthen it.
    Related Drawings
    D181 The Torre del Fiscale near Rome, National Galleries of Scotland (D 4666)
    Critical commentary
    Perhaps unfinished, as suggested by ambiguities in the lower right area at the base of the arch, which seems structurally at variance with the adjacent boulders. The arch itself seems uncharacteristically two-dimensional.
    Previous Cat/Ref Nos
    Art 304
    Bibliography
    WGC, p. 199, pl. 77a
    Condition/Conservation
    Dimensions in frame: 44 x 38.2 cm. Kate Lowry has noted: Panel grain vertical to composition. Varnish very discoloured. Under UV no retouches visible over varnish. Part of the tower is unfinished and the stones in lower right corner are unresolved.

    Work of Art

    Drawings

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), The Torre del Fiscale near Rome, National Galleries of Scotland

    Exhibitions

    • Gloucester City Museum & Art Gallery, 2 January - 1 March 2014

    Biographies

    • Stanley Marling (1864-1963)
    • Colonel Maurice Harold Grant (1872-1962)

    Documents

    • William George Constable, Richard Wilson
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