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    Outlet of the Emissario

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    Outlet of the Emissario
    Outlet of the Emissario
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    Artist
    Ascribed to Wilson
    Title
    Outlet of the Emissario
    Date
    c.1752-56 (undated)
    Medium
    Black and white chalk on pink-buff paper
    Dimensions
    Metric: 261 x 397 mm
    Imperial: 10 1/4 x 15 5/8 in.
    Collection
    The British Museum. To license image, click here
    Accession Number
    Oo,5.5
    Wilson Online Reference
    NWD107
    Description
    A hillside of boulder and brushwood, in which appears the mouth of a passage in the rock towards the left. Over this a tall arch has been built, from which a stream flows down into the right foreground. Two figures stand near the outlet.
    Provenance
    Bequeathed by Richard Payne Knight, 1824
    Signature/inscription
    Unsigned; inscribed in ink, not by Wilson, lower left: the Uscito of the | Emissario 3 Miles | from the Lake which Uscito Emptys | itself into ye Liris now | Gariglione at Capestrello
    Verso inscriptions
    Verso invisible - the primary support is laid down
    Subject
    The tunnel was made by the Romans in AD 52 in order to drain the Lacus Fucius
    Critical commentary
    Pace the setting and the provenance the drawing style argues against Wilson himself as the artist, nor is the inscription in his hand. This is one of several drawings of the Emissario and its environs by the same hand (see also NWD108 Entrance to the Cuniculo and NWD108/1 The First Entrance to the Cuniculo, both in the British Museum and with the same provenance).
    Bibliography
    Binyon 30
    Condition/Conservation
    Good condition

    Biographies

    • Richard Payne Knight (1751-1824)

    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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