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    A Bridge

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    A Bridge
    A Bridge
    A Bridge
    Private Collection, England / Photograph by John Hammond
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    A Bridge
    Date
    c.1753-54 (undated)
    Medium
    Black chalk, heightened with white, on grey paper
    Dimensions
    Metric: 140 x 202 mm
    Imperial: 5 1/2 x 8 in.
    Collection
    Private Collection, England
    Accession Number
    RF85
    Wilson Online Reference
    D236
    Description
    An old stone bridge is shown with two arches, the right one in deep shadow. Two small, hunched figures are crossing it from left to right and two other figures are fishing in the left foreground.
    Exhibited
    Exeter 1946 (48)
    Provenance
    William Lock of Norbury; his sale, Sotheby's, London 3-7 May 1821; Marianne Ford; thence by descent
    Signature/inscription
    Unsigned; no inscription
    Subject
    Robin Simon has identified the site as the Fosso della Cecchina beneath the bridge on the via Nomentana that leads to the Ponte Nomentano. These arches also appear at the left of D316 The Via Nomentana Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven.
    Related Drawings
    D316 The Via Nomentana Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven
    Bibliography
    Walpole Society 1998-I, p. 72, RF85

    Work of Art

    Drawings

    • The Via Nomentana Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven

    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 and other authors, The Ford Collection
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