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    Study for 'Cicero and his Friends'

    Study for 'Cicero and his Friends'
    Study for 'Cicero and his Friends'
    Study for 'Cicero and his Friends'
    Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    Study for 'Cicero and his Friends'
    Date
    c.1769-70 (undated)
    Medium
    Black, white and brightly coloured chalks on greyish paper
    Dimensions
    Metric: 205 x 236 mm
    Imperial: 8 x 9 1/4 in.
    Collection
    Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. To license image, click here.
    Accession Number
    WA1855.145
    Wilson Online Reference
    D371
    Provenance
    Chambers Hall Gift, 1855
    Signature/inscription
    Unsigned; no inscription
    Techniques and materials
    The use of colour is unusual and delicate. It is a pity that the surface is rubbed.
    Collectors' marks
    [1] Lower left corner: Chambers Hall (Lugt 551)
    Related Drawings
    D178 Arpinum, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
    Related Prints
    E45 William Woollett after Wilson, Cicero at his Villa, The British Museum and other impressions
    Related Paintings
    P162 Cicero and his two Friends, Atticus and Quintus, at his Villa at Arpinum, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
    P162A Cicero with his Friend Atticus and Brother Quintus at his Villa at Arpinum, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
    P162B Cicero, Atticus and Quintus at his Villa at Arpinum, Private Collection, London
    Critical commentary
    Apparently a preparatory drawing for P162 and P162A
    Previous Cat/Ref Nos
    1902
    Bibliography
    WGC, p. 169, pl. 27c; Solkin 1978, p. 410, pl. 26a; Brown 1982, pp. 665-66, no. 1902, pl. 551
    More Information
    From the evidence of the hats, there are two figures in modern dress, with backs to the spectator, looking out across the water.
    Updated by Compiler
    26/08/2016

    Work of Art

    Drawings

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Arpinum, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford

    Prints

    • William Woollett after Wilson Cicero at his Villa, The British Museum

    Paintings

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Cicero and his two Friends, Atticus and Quintus, at his Villa at Arpinum, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Cicero with his Friend Atticus and Brother Quintus at his Villa at Arpinum, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Cicero, Atticus and Quintus at his Villa at Arpinum, Private Collection, London

    Biographies

    • Chambers Hall (1786-1855)

    Documents

    • William George Constable, Richard Wilson
    • David Solkin, 'Some New Light on the Drawings of Richard Wilson'
    • 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
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