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    Artists sketching on a River Bank

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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    Artists sketching on a River Bank
    Date
    c.1752-56 (undated)
    Medium
    Black chalk with white chalk on blue-green paper
    Dimensions
    Metric: 270 x 395 mm
    Imperial: 10 5/8 x 15 9/16 in.
    Collection
    The British Museum. To license image, click here
    Accession Number
    1881,0212.13
    Wilson Online Reference
    D101
    Description
    A river winds between wooded hills into the right foreground. On the left, two artists sit on the bank sketching before two trees, between whose trunks stands a third figure.
    Provenance
    Presented by John Deffett Francis, February 1881
    Signature/inscription
    Unsigned; no inscription
    Verso inscriptions
    Verso invisible - paper laid down
    Bibliography
    Binyon 10; Solkin 1978, pp. 410-11, 414
    Condition/Conservation
    Some bad staining and some flattened creasing

    Biographies

    • John Deffett Francis (1815-1901)

    Documents

    • David Solkin, 'Some New Light on the Drawings of Richard Wilson'
    • 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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