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    Baths of Dioclesian (from Twelve Original Views in Italy)

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    Baths of Dioclesian (from Twelve Original Views in Italy)
    Baths of Dioclesian (from Twelve Original Views in Italy)
    Baths of Dioclesian (from Twelve Original Views in Italy)
    Royal Academy of Arts, London
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    Artist
    James Gandon (1742-1823) after Wilson
    Title
    Baths of Dioclesian (from Twelve Original Views in Italy)
    Date
    Undated
    Medium
    Etching
    Dimensions
    Metric: 154 x 224 mm
    Imperial: 6 1/16 x 8 13/16 in.
    Collection
    Royal Academy of Arts, London. To license image, click here.
    Accession Number
    05/4501
    Wilson Online Reference
    E34A
    Description
    A broad open space, flanked by buildings on either side including the ruins of the Baths, with another building at the far end. In the right foreground a woman and boy talk to a beggar leaning against a post. Further away there are two groups of two figures and a man with a staff near fragments of a fallen column. Other figures can be seen near a wall on the right. Light from the left casts a shadow over most of the foreground.
    Provenance
    Acquired by 1802
    Signature/inscription
    Lettered below the image:
    [1] Lower left: R. Wilson del.
    [2] Lower right: Jas. Gandon sc.
    [3] Lower centre: BATH'S of DIOCLESIAN. [sic]
    Related Drawings
    D106 Baths of Diocletian, British Museum, London
    Versions
    See 'Links' tab
    Previous Cat/Ref Nos
    PL003842
    Bibliography
    Edwards 1808, p. 88; T.J. Mulvany, The Life of James Gandon, Esq. 1846, facsimile reprint ed. M. Craig, 1969, pp. 191-92
    More Information
    Bound in a nineteenth-century volume with Charles Hullmandel's lithographic 24 Views of Italy, 1818.
    E34A is one of the few extant impressions of this etching (along with E34) to lack Boydell's publication line. This may indicate that, together with other prints in the series Twelve Original Views in Italy, it was first commissioned by Wilson with a view to publication himself, and only later passed or sold to Boydell when Wilson was hard pressed for cash.
    Condition/Conservation
    Some discoloured spotting
    Updated by Compiler
    2025-05-01 00:00:00

    Work of Art

    Drawings

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Baths of Diocletian, The British Museum

    Versions

    • James Gandon (1742-1823)after Wilson, Baths of Dioclesian (from Twelve Original Views in Italy), Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven

    Biographies

    • James Gandon (1742-1823)

    Documents

    • Edward Edwards, Anecdotes of Painters who have resided or been born in England; with critical Remarks on their Productions
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