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    View from Gaiolo, near Naples

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    View from Gaiolo, near Naples
    View from Gaiolo, near Naples
    View from Gaiolo, near Naples
    Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    View from Gaiolo, near Naples
    Date
    c.1752-54 (undated)
    Medium
    Pen and brown ink and grey and green washes over indications in graphite
    Dimensions
    Metric: 145 x 287 mm
    Imperial: 5 11/16 x 11 5/ 16 in.
    Collection
    Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. To license image, click here.
    Accession Number
    WA1855.142
    Wilson Online Reference
    D176
    Description
    The view is traditionally from La Gaiola, with Capo Miseno in the distance
    Exhibited
    London 1934 (1162 - A Sea Coast)
    Provenance
    Chambers Hall Gift, 1855
    Collectors' marks
    [1] Lower right corner: Chambers Hall (Lugt 551)
    [2] Lower right corner: Oxford University Galleries (Lugt 2003)
    Subject
    Gaiola Island, if that is what is depicted here, is a minor island near Naples, just offshore from Posillipo and part of the Campanian Archipelago.
    Critical commentary
    There is no related painting
    Previous Cat/Ref Nos
    1894
    Bibliography
    Commemorative Catalogue 1934 (587, pl. CXLVI); Brown 1982, pp. 662-63, no. 1894, pl. 544

    Biographies

    • Chambers Hall (1786-1855)

    Documents

    • 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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