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    House with a high Portico, Bologna

    House with a high Portico, Bologna
    House with a high Portico, Bologna
    House with a high Portico, Bologna
    Private Collection, England / Photograph by John Hammond
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    House with a high Portico, Bologna
    Date
    c.1751 (undated)
    Medium
    Pencil
    Dimensions
    Metric: 140 x 172 mm
    Imperial: 5 1/2 x 6 3/4 in.
    Collection
    Private Collection, England
    Accession Number
    RF72
    Wilson Online Reference
    D51
    Exhibited
    Exeter 1946 (39)
    Provenance
    By descent
    Signature/inscription
    Inscribed in ink at the lower right, not in Wilson's hand: à Bologna
    Verso inscriptions
    In various contemporary hands:
    [1] Richard Wilson
    [2] Very faint and in another hand: Gaetano; with a slight sketch of a man
    [3] Against the sketch and in another hand: Copied by Sandby in a large drawing
    Critical commentary
    On the reverse there is a slight sketch of a man as well as inscriptions. One of these states that the sketch was 'copied by Sandby in a large drawing'.
    Bibliography
    WGC, p. 25, note 1; Walpole Society 1998-I, p. 70, RF 72
    Condition/Conservation
    Considerable foxing and spotting

    Exhibitions

    • Exeter, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, 7 March - 5 April 1946

    Biographies

    • Sir Brinsley Ford (1908-1999)

    Documents

    • William George Constable, Richard Wilson
    • Brinsley Ford and other authors, The Ford Collection
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