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    The Log Fire

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    The Log Fire
    The Log Fire
    The Log Fire
    Private Collection, England / Photograph by John Hammond
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    The Log Fire
    Date
    c.1751-52 (undated)
    Medium
    Black and red chalks, heightened with white, on grey paper
    Dimensions
    Metric: 172 x 242 mm
    Imperial: 6 3/4 x 9 1/2 in.
    Collection
    Private Collection, England
    Accession Number
    RF73
    Wilson Online Reference
    D71
    Exhibited
    Exeter 1946 (25 - Logs burning)
    Provenance
    William Lock of Norbury; his sale, Sotheby's, London 3-7 May 1821 (part of 392?); Marianne Ford; thence by descent
    Related Paintings
    P51 Landscape with Banditti round a Tent, National Museum Wales, Cardiff
    Critical commentary
    Probably a study for the log fire in the right foreground of P51 Landscape with Banditti round a Tent, National Museum Wales, Cardiff, painted in 1752 for the Earl of Wicklow. Wilson began to use grey paper for his drawings soon after his arrival in Rome, following the example of French artists there.
    Bibliography
    Ford 1951, pp. 25-26; Ford May 1951, p. 162, fig. 25: Walpole Society 1998-I, p. 70, RF 73

    Work of Art

    Paintings

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Landscape with Banditti round a Tent, National Museum Wales, Cardiff
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Landscape with Banditti: The Murder, National Museum Wales, Cardiff

    Exhibitions

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

    Biographies

    • William Lock 'of Norbury' (1732-1810)
    • Richard Ford (1796-1858)
    • Sir Brinsley Ford (1908-1999)
    • Marianne Booth, Lady Ford (1767-1849)
    • Sir Francis Clare Ford (1828-1899)
    • John G. Ford (-1917)

    Documents

    • Brinsley Ford, The Drawings of Richard Wilson
    • Brinsley Ford, 'Richard Wilson in Rome: I - The Wicklow Wilsons'
    • Brinsley Ford and other authors, The Ford Collection
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