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    The Baths of Nero

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    The Baths of Nero
    The Baths of Nero
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    The Baths of Nero
    Date
    c.1752-56 (undated)
    Medium
    Black chalk and stump, touched with white, on blue-green paper
    Dimensions
    Metric: 279 x 421 mm
    Imperial: 11 x 16 9/16 in.
    Collection
    The British Museum. To license image, click here
    Accession Number
    1847,0723.106
    Wilson Online Reference
    D251
    Description
    The Baths of Nero are shown in a bay with a ruin beneath a wooded cliff. In the distance, there is a castle on a hill and beyond, a headland and rocky island. In the foreground a neck of land projects from the shore with figures near two boats. Other figures are visible further off.
    Provenance
    Bought from Walter Benjamin Tiffin, 434 West Strand, London, 1847
    Signature/inscription
    Inscribed upper right by Wilson: 'Baths of Nero.'
    Verso inscriptions
    The reverse was invisible as the drawing has been laid down
    Critical commentary
    It is probable that the inscription refers to the villa built at Baiae by the Emperor Nero in the first century AD. Baiae lies on the Gulf of Pozzuoli in the northwestern part of the Gulf of Naples.
    Bibliography
    Binyon 12
    Condition/Conservation
    Foxed in the sky and at the lower left and upper right corners

    Biographies

    • Walter Benjamin Tiffin (1795-1877)

    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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