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    Solitude, Study for a Picture

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    Solitude, Study for a Picture
    Solitude, Study for a Picture
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    Solitude, Study for a Picture
    Date
    c. 1762 (undated)
    Medium
    Black chalk and stump, touched with white, on brown-grey paper
    Dimensions
    Metric: 257 x 347 mm
    Imperial: 10 1/8 x 13 11/16 in.
    Collection
    The British Museum. To license image, click here
    Accession Number
    1881,0212.3
    Wilson Online Reference
    D359
    Description
    A pool is depicted, on the left bank of which stands an old man in a long robe beside a seated figure under a tree. On the high further bank is a grove and at the right a weeping willow overhangs the water.
    Exhibited
    London, Cardiff and New Haven, 1982-83 (100)
    Provenance
    Donated by John Deffett Francis, 1881
    Signature/inscription
    Unsigned; no inscription
    Verso inscriptions
    Verso invisible - laid down
    Related Prints
    E44 William Woollett and William Ellis after Wilson Solitude, 1778, National Museum Wales, Cardiff and other impressions
    E57 Christian Duttenhofer after Wilson,Solitude, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven
    Related Paintings
    P114 Solitude - I, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea
    P114A Solitude - I, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
    P114B Solitude - I , Private Collection Ireland
    P115 Wilson and Studio, Solitude - II, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
    Critical commentary
    A compositional sketch for P114
    Bibliography
    Binyon 16; WGC, p. 169, pl. 28b; Solkin 1982, p. 212
    Link to WG Constable Archive Record
    WGC/1/1/30
    Condition/Conservation
    Very stained and worn

    Work of Art

    Prints

    • William Woollett (1735-1785) and William Ellis (1747-1810) after Wilson, Solitude, National Museum Wales, Cardiff
    • William Woollett (1735-1785) and William Ellis (1747-1810) after Wilson, Solitude, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven
    • William Woollett (1735-1785) and William Ellis (1747-1810) after Wilson, Solitude, The British Museum
    • William Woollett (1735-1785) and William Ellis (1747-1810) after Wilson, Solitude, Royal Academy of Arts, London
    • William Woollett (1735-1785) and William Ellis (1747-1810) after Wilson, Solitude, National Museum Wales, Cardiff
    • William Woollett (1735-1785) and William Ellis (1747-1810) after Wilson, Solitude, National Museum Wales, Cardiff
    • William Woollett (1735-1785) and William Ellis (1747-1810) after Wilson, Solitude, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
    • Christian Duttenhofer (1778-1846) after Wilson, Solitude, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven

    Paintings

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Solitude I, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Solitude I, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Solitude I, Private Collection Ireland
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) and Studio, Solitude - II, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

    Exhibitions

    • London, Tate Gallery, Cardiff, National Museum of Wales, and New Haven, Conn., Yale Center for British Art, 3 November 1982 - 19 June 1983

    Biographies

    • John Deffett Francis (1815-1901)

    Documents

    • William George Constable, Richard Wilson
    • David Solkin, Richard Wilson: The Landscape of Reaction
    • 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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