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    Thomas Hastings after Wilson
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    Date
    Published December 1821
    Medium
    Etching on chine collé
    Dimensions
    Metric: 237 x 188 mm
    Imperial: 9 5/16 x 7 3/8 in.
    Collection
    The British Museum. To license image, click here
    Accession Number
    1854,0708.73
    Wilson Online Reference
    E72/16
    Description
    Three figures near the remains of a church on a shore in the foreground at the right, with a stone pillar to their left and a sailing boat in the water beyond. Strong rays of sunlight pierce the gloomy clouds.
    Provenance
    Bought from George Willis, Piazza, Covent Garden, 1854
    Signature/inscription
    Lettered below the image with the title, 'The Original is in the Possession of Lady Ford.'; production details and publication line: 'Painted by R. Wilson. | 1771 | Etched by T. Hastings | and | publd. in London Decr. 1821'
    Related Drawings
    D361 Ruins and Figures, The British Museum (1881,0212.26)
    D361A Landscape: Road winding past Ruins of a Castle, Victoria & Albert Museum, London (Dyce.645)
    Related Prints
    E60/16 John Whessell after Wilson, Studies & Designs: View of a ruined Tower with three Figures gathered in Front, The British Museum
    E60/16A John Whessell after Wilson, Architectural Ruins, National Museum Wales, Cardiff
    Related Paintings
    P168 Ruined Tower with a Figure, Bristol City Museum and Gallery
    P168A Two Figures by a Ruin (Ruined Tower with a Figure), Felbrigg Hall, National Trust
    Critical commentary
    From a series of forty etchings after paintings by Richard Wilson and additional title page, bound in a volume in red tooled leather with gold decorative border, lettered on the spine with 'Wilson's | Etchings | by | Hastings'; the title page lettered in black and red: 'Etchings, | from the Works | of | [ facsimile of signature below portrait] Ric. Wilson | with Some Memoirs of his Life, &c. | by Thomas Hastings, Esq. | Collector of His Majesty's Customs. | "Non Ductus Officio Sed Amore Operis." Quintillian. | Published by Hurst, Robinson & Co. Cheapside, London. | Johnson, Typ. Apollo Press, 1825. Brook Street, Holborn'; containing twenty pages of Introductory and Concluding Remarks by the etcher, including descriptions of Richard Wilson's original paintings.
    Previous Cat/Ref Nos
    PRA324380
    Bibliography
    Hastings 1825, repr.; WGC, p. 221, pl. 112a; Yule 2015, pp. 60 & 69
    More Information
    George Willis was an antiquarian book dealer, who occasionally published books and prints. His firm was active from 1832-1856 and sold many prints to the British Museum. In 1856 it merged with Thomas Sotheran to become Willis & Sotheran.
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    2015-12-09 00:00:00

    Work of Art

    Drawings

    • Ruins and Figures, The British Museum
    • Landscape: Road winding past, Victoria & Albert Museum, London

    Prints

    • John Whessell (c.1760-1806) after Wilson Studies & Designs: View of a ruined Tower with three Figures gathered in front, The British Museum
    • John Whessell (c.1760-1806) after Wilson Architectural Ruins, National Museum Wales, Cardiff

    Paintings

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Ruined Tower with a Figure, Bristol City Museum and Gallery
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Two Figures by a Ruin (Ruined Tower with a Figure), Felbrigg Hall, National Trust

    Biographies

    • Captain Thomas Hastings (1778-1854)
    • Marianne Booth, Lady Ford (1767-1849)

    Documents

    • Thomas Hastings, Etchings from the Works of Ric. Wilson, with some Memoirs of his Life &c.
    This print is part of the "Etchings from the Works of Richard Wilson British Museum" sketchbook
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