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    Tivoli: The Temple of the Sibyl and the Campagna [untitled]

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    Tivoli: The Temple of the Sibyl and the Campagna [untitled]
    Tivoli: The Temple of the Sibyl and the Campagna [untitled]
    Tivoli: The Temple of the Sibyl and the Campagna [untitled]
    Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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    Artist
    William Byrne (1743-1805) after Wilson
    Title
    Tivoli: The Temple of the Sibyl and the Campagna [untitled]
    Date
    Published 1 August 1765
    Medium
    Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
    Dimensions
    Metric: 384 x 492 mm (sheet); 337 x 422 mm (plate)
    Imperial: 15 1/8 x 19 3/8 in. (sheet); 13 1/4 x 16 5/8 in. (plate)
    Collection
    Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven. To license images click here
    Accession Number
    B1984.21.429
    Wilson Online Reference
    E15
    Description
    A traveller is shown with a dog on a road in the foreground, asking a woman who sits knitting at the roadside for directions. Further left on the bank beyond a framing tree a man drawing in or consulting an open book is watched by a standing peasant. There is a valley below and classical buildings on a peak to the right, with a bridge or aqueduct and city buildings visible across the plains. Mountains can be seen in the distance.
    Exhibited
    Tercentenary 2014 (85)
    Provenance
    Acquired 1984
    Signature/inscription
    Lettered lower left: 'Richd. Wilson pinxt.' [and] 'No.3.'; lower centre: 'Engraved from the Original Picture Painted by Mr Richard Wilson.'; [and] 'Publish'd according to Act of Parliament by J.BOYDELL, Engraver in Cheapside, London. Augt.1.1765.'; lower right: 'Willm. Byrne sculpt.'
    Versions
    See 'Links' tab
    Related Paintings
    P52 Tivoli: The Temple of the Sibyl and the Campagna - I, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
    P142 Tivoli: The Temple of the Sibyl and the Campagna - I , Private Collection, England
    P142B Tivoli: The Temple of the Sibyl and the Campagna - I, Tate, London
    P142C Tivoli: Temple of the Sibyl and the Campagna - I , Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
    Critical commentary
    E15 was engraved by Byrne after P142B Tivoli: The Temple of the Sibyl and the Campagna - I, Tate, London. The print confirms the success of Wilson's Tivoli views painted from memory and imagination in about 1765. However, the prospect is reversed in the print, though it retains the essential elements of any Tivoli view, i.e. the Temple of the Sibyl / Vesta at the summit of the cliffs, the waterfalls and the view over the Roman Campagna. An earlier version of the painting, possibly P52, was used by Wilson in Rome for his students to copy.
    Previous Cat/Ref Nos
    Object ID: 20829
    Bibliography
    Edwards 1808, p. 88; WGC, p. 223 under pl. 115a; Wilson and Europe 2014, p. 269
    Link to WG Constable Archive Record
    WGC/1/1/132

    Work of Art

    Versions

    • William Byrne (1743-1805)after Wilson, Landscape - A Traveller with a Dog on a Road [untitled], The British Museum
    • William Byrne (1743-1805)after Wilson, Landscape - A Traveller with a Dog on a Road [untitled], The British Museum
    • William Byrne (1743-1805)after Wilson, Tivoli: The Temple of the Sibyl and the Campagna [untitled], Royal Academy of Arts, London

    Paintings

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Tivoli: The Temple of the Sibyl and the Campagna - I, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Tivoli: The Temple of the Sibyl and the Campagna - I , Private Collection, England
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Tivoli: The Temple of the Sibyl and the Campagna - I, Tate, London
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Tivoli: Temple of the Sibyl and the Campagna - I , Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

    Exhibitions

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

    Biographies

    • William Byrne (1743-1805)
    • Paul Mellon (1907-1999)

    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
    • Benjamin Booth, Unpublished Notes, Document 6: List of Engravers after Wilson and Biographical Notes
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