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    Entrance to the Cuniculo

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    Entrance to the Cuniculo
    Entrance to the Cuniculo
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    Artist
    Ascribed to Wilson
    Title
    Entrance to the Cuniculo
    Date
    c.1752-56 (undated)
    Medium
    Black chalk, touched with white, on grey-buff paper
    Dimensions
    Metric: 266 x 282 mm
    Imperial: 10 1/2 x 11 1/8 in.
    Collection
    The British Museum. To license image, click here
    Accession Number
    Oo,5.6
    Wilson Online Reference
    NWD108
    Description
    Two figures, one with a staff, are seen coming from the right and are about to descend into a tunnel, which opens in the face of a rocky cliff. Light is coming from the right, the foreground cast into a shadow by an arch of rock, tufted with plants.
    Provenance
    Bequeathed by Richard Payne Knight, 1824
    Signature/inscription
    Unsigned; inscribed in ink in the upper margin: the Immediate Entrance into the Cuniculo which descends to the Emissario
    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 NWD107 Outlet of the Emissario and NWD108/1 The First Entrance to the Cuniculo, both in the British Museum and with the same provenance).
    Bibliography
    Binyon 31
    Condition/Conservation
    Very 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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