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    Study for 'The Murder'

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    Study for 'The Murder'
    Study for 'The Murder'
    Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    Study for 'The Murder'
    Date
    c.1752 (undated)
    Medium
    Black chalk (rubbed) on grey paper
    Dimensions
    Metric: 197 x 359 mm
    Imperial: 7 13/16 x 14 1/8 in.
    Collection
    Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. To license image, click here.
    Accession Number
    WA1855.135
    Wilson Online Reference
    D173
    Provenance
    Chambers Hall Gift, 1855
    Signature/inscription
    Unsigned; no inscription
    Techniques and materials
    Some stump work is evident, for example on the rocks in the foreground
    Collectors' marks
    [1] Lower right corner: Chambers Hall (Lugt 551)
    [2] Lower right corner: Oxford University Galleries (Lugt 2003)
    Related Drawings
    Variants exist, notably the finished drawing formerly in the collection of the Earls of Dartmouth (D322 Landscape with Banditti: The Murder, National Museum Wales, Cardiff)
    Related Paintings
    P50 Landscape with Banditti: The Murder, National Museum Wales, Cardiff
    Bibliography
    Ford May 1951, p. 162, fig. 22; WGC, p. 157, pl. 12c; Brown 1982, p. 665, no. 1901, pl. 550
    Link to WG Constable Archive Record
    WGC/1/1/17
    Condition/Conservation
    The sheet was, at some time, torn into eight sections and has been pieced together. There is some rubbing of the black chalk.

    Work of Art

    Drawings

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Landscape with Banditti: The Murder, National Museum Wales, Cardiff

    Paintings

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Landscape with Banditti: The Murder, National Museum Wales, Cardiff

    Biographies

    • Chambers Hall (1786-1855)

    Documents

    • William George Constable, Richard Wilson
    • Brinsley Ford, 'Richard Wilson in Rome: I - The Wicklow Wilsons'
    • 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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