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    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings pp. 8(v) and 9(r)

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    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings pp. 8(v) and 9(r)
    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings pp. 8(v) and 9(r)
    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings pp. 8(v) and 9(r)
    Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings pp. 8(v) and 9(r)
    Date
    1754
    Medium
    Graphite with white and black chalk on medium, rough, blued white wove paper
    Dimensions
    Metric: 281 x 210 mm (each sheet)
    Imperial: 11 1/16 x 8 1/4 in. (each sheet)
    Collection
    Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven. To license images click here
    Accession Number
    B1977.14.359 v8 & r9
    Wilson Online Reference
    D280/8
    Description
    8(v): A distant view of Rome framed by a large tree at the left
    9(r): An unmade bed with a chamber pot beneath
    Provenance
    Oldfield Bowles; given to Sir George Beaumont, 1784; thence by descent until 1963, when sold to Paul Mellon
    Signature/inscription
    Unsigned; no inscription
    Related Drawings
    D68 Still Life with Flask, The British Museum
    D69 Chair and Sword Hilt, National Galleries of Scotland
    D70 Still life: Study of a Kettle, Piece of Fruit and a Knife on a Table, The British Museum
    Critical commentary
    9(r) has compositional or stylistic affinities with Wilson's slightly earlier still-life drawings made in Italy - notably D70 Still life: Study of a Kettle, Piece of Fruit and a Knife on a Table, The British Museum; also D68 Still Life with Flask, The British Museum, and D69 Chair and Sword Hilt, National Galleries of Scotland
    Previous Cat/Ref Nos
    Object ID: 6363
    More Information
    Only two sketchbooks by Wilson have survived - the present one (D280-D280/33) and D53-D53/81 Studies and Designs by R. Wilson done in Rome in the Year MDCCLII, Victoria & Albert Museum, London (E.3586-1922).

    Work of Art

    Drawings

    • Still Life with Flask, The British Museum
    • Chair and Sword Hilt, National Galleries of Scotland
    • Still life: Study of a Kettle, Piece of Fruit and a Knife on a Table, The British Museum

    Biographies

    • Paul Mellon (1907-1999)
    • Oldfield Bowles (1739-1810)
    • Sir George Beaumont (1753-1827)

    Documents

    • Denys Sutton & Ann Clements, An Italian Sketchbook by Richard Wilson, RA: Drawings made by the Artist in Rome and its Environs in the Year 1754
    This drawing is part of the "Italian Sketchbook Drawings Yale Center for British Art 1754" sketchbook
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