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    Landscape with Vesuvius

    Landscape with Vesuvius
    Landscape with Vesuvius
    Landscape with Vesuvius
    Royal Academy of Arts, London
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    Landscape with Vesuvius
    Date
    Dated lower right: 1756
    Medium
    Black and white chalk on laid prepared light brown paper
    Dimensions
    Metric: 96 x 98 mm
    Imperial: 3 3/4 x 3 7/8 in.
    Collection
    Royal Academy of Arts, London. To license image, click here.
    Accession Number
    03/1876
    Wilson Online Reference
    D250
    Description
    Three men with two mules can be seen halted in a field before a volcano, beside a fourth figure who sits on a stone to the right
    Exhibited
    Tercentenary 2014 (49)
    Provenance
    William Lock of Norbury; his sale, Sotheby's, London 3-7 May 1821 (386); William Esdaile (1758-1837); Wellesley sale 1866 (748)
    Signature/inscription
    Signed lower left: R.W.f.
    Inscribed lower right: WE
    Collectors' marks
    [1] Recto lower right corner: William Esdaile (Lugt 2617)
    Related Drawings
    D53/45 Studies and Designs done in Rome in the Year 1752, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, p. 45
    D249 Landscape with the Crater of Vesuvius, Royal Academy of Arts, London
    Related Prints
    E60/24 John Whessell after Wilson, Studies & Designs: Vesuvius, The British Museum
    Critical commentary
    D250 and D249 both belonged to William Lock (1732-1810) who very probably visited Naples and the surrounding area with Wilson in 1752. Martin Postle has suggested that two such elegantly framed and presented pieces were created by the artist as a souvenir of their expedition to the crater of Vesuvius, also recorded in D53 Wilson's 1752 Sketchbook, Victoria and Albert Museum. The circular framing recurs on a larger scale in D338 A Skirmish in Rowing-Boats in the Bay of Baiae (Private Collection), which was also owned by Lock.
    Bibliography
    E.B. Jupp, Royal Academy Catalogue, vol. 1; WGC, p. 37; Wilson and Europe 2014, p. 240

    Work of Art

    Drawings

    • Studies and Designs done in Rome in the Year 1752, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, p. 45
    • Landscape with the Crater of Vesuvius, Royal Academy of Arts, London

    Prints

    • John Whessell after Wilson, Studies & Designs: Vesuvius, The British Museum

    Exhibitions

    • New Haven, Yale Center for British Art & Cardiff, Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, 6 March - 29 October 2014

    Biographies

    • William Lock 'of Norbury' (1732-1810)
    • William Esdaile (1758-1837)

    Documents

    • William George Constable, Richard Wilson
    • Martin Postle & Robin Simon, Richard Wilson and the Transformation of European Landscape Painting
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