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    Studies & Designs: View of a Fountain and Archway with three Women…

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    Studies & Designs: View of a Fountain and Archway with three Women…
    Studies & Designs: View of a Fountain and Archway with three Women…
    National Museum Wales, Cardiff
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    Artist
    John Whessell (c.1760-1806) after Wilson
    Title
    Studies & Designs: View of a Fountain and Archway with three Women and Children
    Date
    Published 1811
    Medium
    Soft-ground etching on India laid paper
    Dimensions
    Metric: 104 x 154 mm
    Imperial: 4 1/16 x 6 1/16 in.
    Collection
    National Museum Wales, Cardiff. To license image, click here.
    Accession Number
    NMW A 10967
    Wilson Online Reference
    E60/13A
    Description
    View of an ancient fountain, where three women are drawing water. An archway extends from it to the right and three children play further away on the left - all within an etched rectangular border.
    Provenance
    Thomas Henry Thomas Bequest 1916
    Signature/inscription
    No inscription visible
    Mount inscriptions
    [1] Lower centre, pencil: 30
    Versions
    See 'Links' tab
    Critical commentary
    From a set of small soft-ground etchings by Whessell made after Wilson's drawings in a sketchbook at the Victoria & Albert Museum (D53-D53/81). In 1811 the etchings were published by the Oxford-based publisher, Robert Archer in more than one format.
    Bibliography
    Archer 1811, p. 30
    Condition/Conservation
    Proof state

    Biographies

    • John Whessell (Active 1760-1799)
    • Robert Archer (1811)

    Documents

    • Robert Archer, Studies and Designs by Richard Wilson, done at Rome in the Year 1752
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