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A Roman Altar at Palestrina
A Roman Altar at Palestrina
Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
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Artist
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
Title
A Roman Altar at Palestrina
Date
c.1752-56 (undated)
Medium
Black chalk heightened with white on brownish-grey paper
Dimensions
Metric: 148 x 143 mm
Imperial: 5 3/4 x 5 1/2 in.
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Collection
Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. To license image, click here.
Accession Number
WA1855.134
Wilson Online Reference
D172
Provenance
Chambers Hall Gift, 1855
Signature/inscription
Inscribed by the artist in black chalk above the lower margin: 'at Palestrina'
Collectors' marks
[1] Lower right corner: Chambers Hall (Lugt 551)
[2] Lower left corner: Oxford University Galleries (Lugt 2003)
Mount inscriptions
[1] Recto upper right corner on old washline mount in reinforced brown ink: No 6
Subject
An ancient altar is shown, carved with Victories holding swags. The town of Palestrina is about 20 kms south of Tivoli.
Related Prints
E72/2 Hastings after Wilson,
'Near Rome
, 1820, The British Museum
E72/38 Hastings after Wilson,
View on the Tiber with Rome in the Distance
, The British Museum
Related Paintings
P64A
A View of the Tiber with Rome in the Distance
, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
P156
Near Rome
, Private Collection, England
Critical commentary
As noted by Ford, altars carved with swags appear in Wilson's paintings, such as P64A
A View of the Tiber with Rome in the Distance
, Yale Center for British Art and P156
Near Rome
, Private Collection, England.
Previous Cat/Ref Nos
1898
Bibliography
Ford 1951, p. 53, no. 13; WGC, pp. 221-22 under pl. 113b; Brown 1982, p. 664, no. 1898, pl. 547; Spencer-Longhurst 2012, pp. 65, 67, fig. 37
More Information
Mounted with D19
A Sandalo
, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford (WA1855.148)
Work of Art
Prints
Thomas Hastings after Wilson,
Near Rome
, The British Museum
Thomas Hastings after Wilson,
Near Rome
, The British Museum
Thomas Hastings after Wilson,
View on the Tiber with Rome in the Distance
, The British Museum
Paintings
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782),
A View of the Tiber with Rome in the Distance
, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782),
Near Rome
, Private Collection, England
Biographies
Chambers Hall (1786-1855)
Documents
William George Constable,
Richard Wilson
Brinsley Ford,
The Drawings of Richard Wilson
Paul Spencer-Longhurst, 'All the Quality of his Pictures except the Colour': Richard Wilson's Drawings as Collectors' Items
David Blayney Brown,
Catalogue of the Collection of Drawings in the Ashmolean Museum, Volume IV: The Earlier British Drawings, British Artists and Foreigners working in Britain born before c.1775