Tree Stems

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Tree Stems

Private Collection, England / Photograph by John Hammond

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Artist

Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)

Title

Tree Stems

Date

c. 1754 (undated)

Medium

Black chalk, heightened with white, on grey paper

Dimensions

Metric: 216 x 216 mm
Imperial: 8 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.

Collection

Private Collection, England

Accession Number

RF91

Wilson Online Reference

D287

Description

Tree trunks are shown prominently to the right in the foreground. Further back on the left a man is bending over behind a fallen tree

Exhibited

Exeter 1946 (32 - Withered Tree Stems); Birmingham 1948-49 (100); London 1949 (99); Arts Council 1951 (213)

Provenance

William Lock of Norbury; his sale, Sotheby's, London 3-7 May 1821; Marianne Ford; thence by descent

Signature/inscription

Unsigned; no inscription

Critical commentary

As Luke Herrmann has remarked, this fresh and spontaneous drawing demonstrates Wilson's increasingly effective recording of natural scenery during the second half of his time in Italy.

Bibliography

Ford 1951, pp. 27, 53, pl. 11; Festival 1951, p. 68; Walpole 1998-I, p. 72, RF91

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