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    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings 27(v) and 28(r)

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    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings 27(v) and 28(r)
    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings 27(v) and 28(r)
    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings 27(v) and 28(r)
    Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings 27(v) and 28(r)
    Date
    1754
    Medium
    Black chalk heightened with white on medium, rough, blued white wove paper, bound in vellum
    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 v27 & r28
    Wilson Online Reference
    D280/27
    Description
    27(v): Blank
    28(r): Study of two herms: Dionysus and Hermes/Athena
    Provenance
    Oldfield Bowles; given to Sir George Beaumont, 1784; thence by descent until 1963, when sold to Paul Mellon
    Signature/inscription
    28(r): Inscribed upper right :in the Capitol
    Subject
    28(r): Clements noted that the original of the herm depicted on the left represents Dionysus in archaistic style and is carved in luna marble. It has been restored and the face worked over. The herm drawn on the right is of a type known as Hermathena - a double bust of those divinities, also in luna marble. The heads have been restored. The shaft is draped with a chlamys (cloak) and on the Athena side, on the left and more visible in the drawing, an aegis with a gorgon's head and scales in low relief, edged with snakes.
    Critical commentary
    In the 18th century both herms belonged to Cardinal Alessandro Albani before going to the Museo Capitolino when his collection was sold in 1733. There they were seen and drawn by Wilson. They now stand in the Sala delle Colombe at the museum.
    Previous Cat/Ref Nos
    Object ID: 6363
    Bibliography
    Sutton & Clements 1968, vol. 1, pp. 26-27; vol. 2, p. 48
    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).
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    2016-09-02 00:00:00

    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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