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Tower by a Lake
Tower by a Lake
Private Collection, England / Photograph by John Hammond
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Artist
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
Title
Tower by a Lake
Date
Later 1770s (undated)
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Metric: 35 x 29.8 cm
Imperial: 13 3/4 x 11 3/4 in.
Details
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Collection
Private Collection, England
Accession Number
BB35
Wilson Online Reference
P191
Description
A man with a bundle on a pole and a child are walking towards a ruined tower and buildings along a path on the shore of a river or lake. More figures are seen closer to the ruins in the middle ground. Two trees intertwine in the foreground at the right and the scene is illuminated by a ray of light streaming through a break in the thick clouds.
Exhibited
Exeter 1946 (76 -
Ruin near Venice
); Weston 2011 (31)
Provenance
Benjamin Booth
;
The Revd R.S. Booth
;
Lady Ford
;
The Revd James Ford
;
Marianne Ford
; Mrs Sanders; Mrs Geoffrey Vyvyan, Exeter, niece of Mrs Sanders; bequeathed to her son-in-law,
Brinsley Ford
, 1964
Signature/inscription
Unsigned; no inscription
Related Prints
E72/36 Hastings after Wilson,
Ruin near Venice
, The British Museum (1854,0708.93)
Critical commentary
Stylistically this seems to be a work from Wilson's last years, perhaps a pendant of P190
Tower and Broken Bridge
, Private Collection, England.
Bibliography
Booth Notes Doc. 8, p. 2; Booth Notes, Doc. 9 (6); WGC, p. 227, pl. 119c; Walpole Society 1998-I, pp. 18-19, BB35; Williams 2011, p. 42
Link to WG Constable Archive Record
WGC/1/1/136
Work of Art
Prints
Thomas Hastings after Wilson,
Ruin near Venice
, The British Museum
Paintings
Tower and Broken Bridge
, Private Collection England
Exhibitions
Weston Park, The Granary Art Gallery, 2 April - 3 July 2011
Exeter, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, 7 March - 5 April 1946
Biographies
Benjamin Booth (1732-1807)
Chambers Hall (1786-1855)
Sir Brinsley Ford (1908-1999)
The Revd Richard Salwey Booth (1762-1807)
Marianne Booth, Lady Ford (1767-1849)
Sir Richard Ford (1758-1806)
Documents
William George Constable,
Richard Wilson
Brinsley Ford and other authors,
The Ford Collection
Gareth Williams,
Masterpieces from the Ford Collection
Benjamin Booth, Unpublished Notes, Document 8: List of Wilson's Paintings and Works by Old Masters and other Artists in Booth's Collection
Benjamin Booth, Unpublished Notes, Document 9: List of Wilson's Landscapes with Sizes and former Owners