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    Composition: Landscape with Figures on a Bridge

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    Composition: Landscape with Figures on a Bridge
    Composition: Landscape with Figures on a Bridge
    Composition: Landscape with Figures on a Bridge
    Private Collection, England / Photograph by John Hammond
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    Composition: Landscape with Figures on a Bridge
    Date
    c.1754 (undated)
    Medium
    Black chalk, enclosed in a thick ruled black chalk border.
    Dimensions
    Metric: 114 x 153 mm
    Imperial: 4 1/2 x 6 in.
    Collection
    Private Collection, England
    Accession Number
    RF88
    Wilson Online Reference
    D286
    Description
    In the foreground a group of four figures and a dog stand on a stone bridge across a stream or river. Behind and to the right are large trees and in the middle distance to the left are two figures on another bridge.
    Exhibited
    Exeter 1946 (43 - Landscape)
    Provenance
    William Lock of Norbury; his sale, Sotheby's, London 3-7 May 1821; Marianne Ford; thence by descent
    Signature/inscription
    Unsigned; no inscription
    Critical commentary
    Close to D281 Homage before a Statue, Private Collection Collection, England in technique, manner, presentation, dimensions and presumably date
    Bibliography
    Ford 1951, p. 55, pl. 25

    Exhibitions

    • Exeter, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, 7 March - 5 April 1946

    Biographies

    • William Lock 'of Norbury' (1732-1810)
    • Sir Brinsley Ford (1908-1999)
    • Marianne Booth, Lady Ford (1767-1849)

    Documents

    • Brinsley Ford, The Drawings of Richard Wilson
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