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The Lake of Nemi or Speculum Dianae
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The Lake of Nemi or Speculum Dianae
The Lake of Nemi or Speculum Dianae
Royal Academy of Arts, London
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Artist
Joseph Wood after Wilson
Title
The Lake of Nemi or Speculum Dianae
Date
Published 1764
Medium
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
Metric: 471 x 418 mm
Imperial: 18 1/2 x 16 1/2 in.
Details
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Collection
Royal Academy of Arts, London. To license image, click here.
Accession Number
05/3023
Wilson Online Reference
E13A
Description
Landscape with Diana expelling Callisto, having learned that she is pregnant, on the bank of a lake in the foreground, where two other nymphs comfort her. Trees frame the scene and there is a town on the distant mountainside under an extensive sky.
Exhibited
London 2012 (unnumbered); Tercentenary 2014 (94)
Provenance
Acquired by 1821
Signature/inscription
Lettered below image with title, 'In the collection of Hen. Hoare Esqr.' and publication line: 'Painted by R. Wilson', 'Engrav'd by J. Wood' and publication line: 'Published by J. Boydell, Engraver in Cheapside, London 1764'
Related Prints
E82 Louis Marvy after Wilson,
Lake Nemi or Speculum Dianæ
, The British Museum (in reverse)
Related Paintings
P127A
The Lake of Nemi, with Diana and Callisto
, Trustees of Jane, Lucy and Charles Hoare, The National Trust, Strourhead
Critical commentary
This print was based on P127A
The Lake of Nemi, with Diana and Callisto
, Trustees of Jane, Lucy and Charles Hoare, on loan to the National Trust, Stourhead. As stated in the inscription the painting belonged to Wilson's patron, Henry Hoare. Originally announced in a newspaper advertisement in October 1758, the print was finally published by John Boydell in 1764 as a pendant to Wood's engraving
The Gipsies
after Gainsborough. It was the first print after a landscape by Wilson.
Bibliography
Public Advertiser
, 14 October 1758; Edwards 1808, p. 88; WGC, p. 165; Clayton 1997, pp. 182 & 188; Wilson and Europe 2014, p. 279
Link to WG Constable Archive Record
WGC/1/1/100
Condition/Conservation
Conserved 2012 by Emma Cox
Updated by Compiler
2020-01-08 00:00:00
Work of Art
Prints
Louis Marvy after Wilson,
Lake Nemi or Speculum Dianæ
, The British Museum
Versions
Joseph Woodafter Wilson,
The Lake of Nemi or Speculum Dianae
, National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Joseph Woodafter Wilson,
The Lake of Nemi or Speculum Dianæ
, The British Museum
Paintings
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) and Studio,
The Lake of Nemi or Speculum Dianae with Dolbadarn Castle (Diana and Callisto)
, Bristol City Museum and Gallery
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782),
The Lake of Nemi or Speculum Dianae (The Lake of Nemi with Diana and Callisto)
, National Trust, Trustees of Jane, Lucy and Charles Hoare, Stourhead, Wiltshire
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782),
Diana and Callisto
, Private Collection
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782),
Diana and Callisto
, Lady Lever Art Gallery
Exhibitions
London, Royal Academy, 8 December 2012 - 17 February 2013
New Haven, Yale Center for British Art & Cardiff, Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, 6 March - 29 October 2014
Biographies
Henry Hoare II, 'The Magnificent' (1705-1785)
Documents
William George Constable,
Richard Wilson
Martin Postle & Robin Simon,
Richard Wilson and the Transformation of European Landscape Painting
Edward Edwards,
Anecdotes of Painters who have resided or been born in England; with critical Remarks on their Productions
Timothy Clayton,
The English Print, 1688-1802
Benjamin Booth, Unpublished Notes, Document 6: List of Engravers after Wilson and Biographical Notes
