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    Falls at Tivoli

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    Falls at Tivoli
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    Ascribed to Wilson
    Title
    Falls at Tivoli
    Date
    c.1752-56 (undated)
    Medium
    Black chalk with grey wash on buff paper
    Dimensions
    Metric: 394 x 495 mm
    Imperial: 15 1/2 x 19 1/2 in.
    Collection
    The British Museum. To license image, click here
    Accession Number
    1875,0814.2473
    Wilson Online Reference
    D126
    Description
    Steep crags, tufted with bushes, with falls plunging down them. A building is partly seen above at the upper right.
    Provenance
    Paul Sandby; given by John Deffett Francis, 1875
    Collectors' marks
    [1] Lower left corner: Paul Sandby (Lugt 2112)
    Related Works by Other Artists
    [1] Jacob Philipp Hackert, View of the Cascata Grande at Tivoli, 1769, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome
    [2] Francis Towne, Cascade at Tivoli, watercolour, 1781, Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery
    Critical commentary
    The use of wash is highly unusual for Wilson and it may be that the first recorded owner of the drawing, the watercolourist Paul Sandby (c.1730-1809), was responsible for adding it to the underlying black chalk - or even that the entire drawing is by Sandby.
    Bibliography
    Binyon 59

    Biographies

    • John Deffett Francis (1815-1901)
    • Paul Sandby (c.1730-1809)

    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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