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    The Lago d'Agnano

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    The Lago d'Agnano
    The Lago d'Agnano
    The Lago d'Agnano
    Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    The Lago d'Agnano
    Date
    c.1752 (undated)
    Medium
    Black chalk on grey paper
    Dimensions
    Metric: 256 x 399 mm
    Imperial: 10 1/16 x 15 3/8 in.
    Collection
    Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. To license image, click here.
    Accession Number
    WA1967.18
    Wilson Online Reference
    D177
    Description
    The view is to the south, with the lake centred in the middle distance. Vesuvius is distantly indicated beyond wooded hills at the extreme left and further hills rise to the right.
    Provenance
    William Lock of Norbury; his sale, Sotheby's, London 3-7 May 1821; Captain Richard Ford; T.E. Lowinsky; Sotheby's 8 February 1956 (66); Colnaghi; bt Brinsley Ford; presented by him to the Italian Art and Archives Reserve Fund; presented by the National Art Collections Fund, 1967
    Signature/inscription
    Unsigned; inscribed verso (see Verso inscriptions)
    Collectors' marks
    [1] Recto, lower left corner: 'TEL' in circle: Thomas Lowinsky (Lugt 2420a)
    Verso inscriptions
    Inscriptions by Lowinsky and Ford relating to provenance
    Related Paintings
    P47 View of Lago d'Agnano, the Bay of Naples and Vesuvius in the Distance Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
    P47A Lago d'Agnano with Vesuvius in the Distance, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
    Previous Cat/Ref Nos
    1892
    Bibliography
    Herrmann 1973, p. 56; Brown 1982, pp. 661-62, no. 1892, pl. 543

    Work of Art

    Paintings

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Lago d'Agnano with Vesuvius in the Distance, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), View of Lago d'Agnano, the Bay of Naples and Vesuvius in the Distance Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

    Documents

    • Luke Herrmann, British Landscape Painting of the Eighteenth Century
    • 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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