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La Riccia (Ariccia)
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La Riccia (Ariccia)
La Riccia (Ariccia)
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Artist
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
Title
La Riccia (Ariccia)
Date
c.1752-56 (undated)
Medium
Black chalk and stump on blue-grey laid paper
Dimensions
Metric: 280 x 421 mm
Imperial: 11 x 16 9/16 in.
Details
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Collection
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California. To license image, click here.
Accession Number
59.55.1466
Wilson Online Reference
D335
Description
In a wooded landscape outside a hill town three pilgrims are visiible in the lower right corner, the two more prominent ones a man and a woman
Exhibited
Exeter 1946 (11 -
La Riccia
); London, Royal Academy 1953,
Drawings by Old Masters
, (488 - Ariccia); Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, November-February 1967-68,
Gainsborough and the Gainsboroughesque
,no. 16
Provenance
Paul Sandby; Gilbert Davis; Spink & Son, London; purchased by the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, 9 June 1949
Signature/inscription
Inscribed upper right in black ink: La Riccia
Collectors' marks
[1] Lower left corner: Paul Sandby (Lugt 2112)
Mount inscriptions
[1] Lower centre in an old hand [Farington's?], pencil: Wilson
Bibliography
Solkin 1978, p. 405, pl. 18b
Condition/Conservation
Good condition overall
Exhibitions
Exeter, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, 7 March - 5 April 1946
Biographies
Paul Sandby (c.1730-1809)
Documents
David Solkin, 'Some New Light on the Drawings of Richard Wilson'