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    English Hillside with Fields and Buildings

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    English Hillside with Fields and Buildings
    English Hillside with Fields and Buildings
    Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    English Hillside with Fields and Buildings
    Date
    1770s (undated)
    Medium
    Graphite on white laid paper
    Dimensions
    Metric: 119 x 193 mm
    Imperial: 4 5/8 x 7 5/8 in.
    Collection
    Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. To license image, click here.
    Accession Number
    WA1855.149
    Wilson Online Reference
    D376
    Description
    View of a rising hillside, with a pattern of fields punctuated by numerous trees and hedges, together with buildings on the skyline and a settlement at the lower left
    Exhibited
    Birmingham 1948 (130); London 1949 (129); London, Cardiff and New Haven, 1982-83 (146)
    Provenance
    Chambers Hall Gift, 1855
    Signature/inscription
    Unsigned; no inscription
    Collectors' marks
    [1] Lower right corner: Chambers Hall (Lugt 551)
    [2] Lower right corner: Oxford University Galleries (Lugt 2003)
    Critical commentary
    In Chambers Hall's list of drawings, sent to Oxford on 27 March 1855, the drawing is described as a 'study from nature probably English'. With little evidence the location has been linked with the views of Moor Park, from where the proposed date of c.1765 emerges. Solkin, however, argues convincingly for a later dating in Wilson's last decade.
    Previous Cat/Ref Nos
    1907
    Bibliography
    Ford 1951, pp. 37, 62, no. 74; Brown 1982, pp. 668-69, no. 1907, pl. 554; Solkin 1982, p. 249
    Condition/Conservation
    Once but no longer mounted with D66 Antique Ruins on the Sea Coast

    Exhibitions

    • London, Tate Gallery, Cardiff, National Museum of Wales, and New Haven, Conn., Yale Center for British Art, 3 November 1982 - 19 June 1983
    • Birmingham City Art Gallery, 17 November 1948 - 9 January 1949
    • London, Tate Gallery, 22 January - 14 March 1949

    Biographies

    • Chambers Hall (1786-1855)

    Documents

    • David Solkin, Richard Wilson: The Landscape of Reaction
    • Brinsley Ford, 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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