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    Landscape near Rome

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    Landscape near Rome
    Landscape near Rome
    Landscape near Rome
    Birmingham Museums Trust
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    Landscape near Rome
    Date
    c.1754 (undated)
    Medium
    Pen and black chalk, heightened with white
    Dimensions
    Metric: 268 x 410 mm
    Imperial: 10 5/8 x 16 1/8 in.
    Collection
    Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery. To license images click here.
    Accession Number
    1953P441
    Wilson Online Reference
    D282A
    Description
    In the foreground a man on horseback is led out of a dark wood by another man with a staff. The rough road stretches back towards a Baroque pedimented church in the distance. A robed figure is coming out of the church, and nearby another gives alms to a seated beggar-woman.
    Exhibited
    RA 1949 (3); Worthing 1960 (5)
    Provenance
    J. Leslie Wright; acquired 1953
    Signature/inscription
    Unsigned; no inscription
    Subject
    Located between the lakes of Nemi and Albano on the Via Appia Nuova, southeast of Rome, Ariccia was celebrated for its groves, thought to have been the hunting grounds of the goddess Diana. The area had been a haunt of Gaspard Dughet (1615-1675). whom Wilson greatly admired.
    Related Paintings
    P46 Ariccia I, Tate, London and other versions
    Bibliography
    Ford 1951, p. 64, under no. 84; WGC, p. 193 under pl. 68a

    Work of Art

    Versions

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) A Church at Ariccia, Private Collection, England

    Paintings

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Ariccia I, Tate, London and other versions

    Exhibitions

    • Worthing Art Gallery, 21 May - 18 June 1960

    Documents

    • William George Constable, Richard Wilson
    • Brinsley Ford, The Drawings of Richard Wilson
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