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    A Roman Table Support

    A Roman Table Support
    A Roman Table Support
    A Roman Table Support
    Private Collection, England / Photograph by John Hammond
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    Artist
    Ascribed to Wilson
    Title
    A Roman Table Support
    Date
    c.1753 (undated)
    Medium
    Black chalk heightened with white on grey paper
    Dimensions
    Metric: 159 x 242 mm
    Imperial: 6 1/4 x 9 1/2 in.
    Collection
    Private Collection, England
    Accession Number
    RF110
    Wilson Online Reference
    D223
    Description
    An ancient altar, tilted upwards to the right. A carved half-figure appears at the left end and a small and complete carved figure at the right.
    Exhibited
    Exeter 1946 (23 - A Classical Fragment); Tercentenary 2014 (21)
    Provenance
    Marianne Ford 1807; thence by descent
    Signature/inscription
    Inscribed verso
    Verso inscriptions
    [1] In Lady Ford's hand: Marianne Ford
    [2] In Lady Ford's hand: Wilson
    Subject
    The figures on the support, formerly in the Villa Madama, Rome, but since 1796 in the Naples Museum, represent Scylla and a centaur with a cupid on his back. Antiquities of a similar type occur in the foregrounds of P117 Villa Emiliana near Rome, Private Collection, England and P104 Strada Nomentana I, Tate, London.
    Related Paintings
    P104 Strada Nomentana I, Tate, London
    P117 Villa Emiliana near Rome, Private Collection, England
    Related Works by Other Artists
    Joseph Farington, Sketchbook, 1763, Victoria and Albert Museum (P72-1921), drawing inscribed 'A Tomb after H.' Brinsley Ford suggested that the 'H' in the Farington copy inscription signified Wilson's pupil in Rome, A.F. Harper (1725-1806).
    Critical commentary
    The detail in the drawing and its worn condition, suggesting frequent handling in the studio, indicate that it may be Wilson's original, recorded in several copies by pupils and followers, rather than by either A.F. Harper or William Hodges, as previously believed.
    Bibliography
    S. Reinach, Repertoire de Reliefs, Paris, 1912, vol. 3, p. 67; Ford 1951, p. 53, no. 14; Walpole Society 1998-I, p. 74 (attributed to A.F. Harper); Wilson and Europe 2014, p. 220
    Condition/Conservation
    The paper is torn and worn

    Work of Art

    Paintings

    • Strada Nomentana I, Tate, London
    • Villa Emiliana near Rome, Private Collection, England

    Exhibitions

    • Exeter, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, 7 March - 5 April 1946
    • New Haven, Yale Center for British Art & Cardiff, Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, 6 March - 29 October 2014

    Biographies

    • Marianne Booth, Lady Ford (1767-1849)

    Documents

    • Brinsley Ford, The Drawings of Richard Wilson
    • Martin Postle & Robin Simon, Richard Wilson and the Transformation of European Landscape Painting
    • Brinsley Ford and other authors, The Ford Collection
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