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    Mountain Scene

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    Mountain Scene
    Mountain Scene
    Mountain Scene
    The Trustees of the British Museum
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    Mountain Scene
    Date
    c.1754-56 (undated)
    Medium
    Black chalk and stump, touched with green chalk, on blue-grey paper
    Dimensions
    Metric: 277 x 422 mm
    Imperial: 11 x 16 5/8 in.
    Collection
    The British Museum. To license image, click here
    Accession Number
    1881,0212.14
    Wilson Online Reference
    D255
    Description
    A plateau with a ridge beyond rises in a higher mass at the right. There is a well in the foreground to the left and nearer the right, two figures and some bushes can be seen, with three other small groups of figures further off.
    Provenance
    Donated by John Deffett Francis, 1881
    Signature/inscription
    Unsigned; no inscription
    Verso inscriptions
    Reverse invisible as the paper is laid down
    Bibliography
    Binyon 5
    Condition/Conservation
    Some small amount of staining and cockling

    Biographies

    • John Deffett Francis (1815-1901)

    Documents

    • Laurence Binyon, Catalogue of Drawings by British Artists and Artists of Foreign Origin working in Great Britain preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum
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