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Sketch of an Urn
Sketch of an Urn
Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
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Artist
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
Title
Sketch of an Urn
Date
c.1760-62 (undated)
Medium
Black chalk on blue paper
Dimensions
Metric: 248 x 334 mm
Imperial: 9 3/4 x 13 1/8 in.
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Collection
Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. To license image, click here.
Accession Number
WA1971.53b
Wilson Online Reference
D357/2
Description
Study of a stone classical urn seen from below
Provenance
The Revd Robert Finch; bequeathed to the Taylor Institution, University of Oxford, 1830; transferred to the Ashmolean, 1971
Signature/inscription
Unsigned no inscription
Related Drawings
D357/1
The Ruined Arch at Kew
, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
D357A
A Ruin, Arch at Kew Gardens
, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea
Related Prints
E72/17 Hastings after Wilson,
Villa Borghese
, The British Museum
Related Paintings
P108
The Arch in Kew Gardens
, Private Collection, England
P108A
Kew Gardens, Surrey, Ruined Arch
, Gloucester City Museum and Art Gallery
Critical commentary
The recto of this drawing is D357/1
The Ruined Arch at Kew
, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
Bibliography
Brown 1982, p. 669-70
Condition/Conservation
The white horizontal band across the top of this drawing is caused by fading or the mount showing through (it is not reflection).
Updated by Compiler
2016-12-06 00:00:00
Work of Art
Drawings
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782),
The Ruined Arch at Kew
, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782),
A Ruin, Arch at Kew Gardens
, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea
Prints
Thomas Hastings after Wilson,
Villa Borghese
, The British Museum
Paintings
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782),
The Arch in Kew Gardens
, Private Collection, England
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782),
Kew Gardens, Surrey, Ruined Arch
, Gloucester City Museum and Art Gallery
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