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    Bay of Baiae - Temple of Venus

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    Bay of Baiae - Temple of Venus
    Bay of Baiae - Temple of Venus
    Victoria & Albert Museum, London
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    Bay of Baiae - Temple of Venus
    Date
    c.1752-54 (undated)
    Medium
    Black chalk on grey paper, slightly washed with Indian ink, and heightened with white
    Dimensions
    Metric: 252 x 412 mm
    Imperial: 9 7/8 x 16 3/16 in.
    Collection
    Victoria & Albert Museum, London. To license image, click here
    Accession Number
    DYCE.647
    Wilson Online Reference
    D271
    Description
    A view of a ruined hexagonal building near a lake with a wood in the background, a group of four figures in the foreground and others beyond
    Provenance
    Bequeathed by the Revd Alexander Dyce 1869
    Signature/inscription
    Unsigned; inscribed in black ink lower right: 647
    Subject
    The so-called Temple of Venus at Baiae on the northwest shore of the Gulf of Naples was built in the reign of the Emperor Hadrian (117-137 AD). It was actually a thermal bath, reaching down to about six meters below the modern ground level.
    Related Prints
    E64 William Pengree Sherlock after Wilson, River, Sea-Coast and circular Ruin ('Morning'), The British Museum (1873,0809.1415) and other impressions
    E72/14 Thomas Hastings after Wilson, Temple of Venus with Part of the Bay of Baiae, The British Museum (1854,0708.71) and other impressions
    E72/40 Thomas Hastings after Wilson, Landscape (River, Sea Coast and circular Ruin), The British Museum
    E73 Samuel William Reynolds after Wilson, Morning, The British Museum (1879,0614.334) and other impressions
    Related Paintings
    P92 An Italian Landscape (Morning) Classical Landscape, Private Collection, England
    P92A River, Sea Coast and circular Ruin, Private Collection, England
    P92B An Italian Landscape, Morning (River, Sea-Coast and circular Ruin) (The Temple of Venus at Baiae), Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven
    Critical commentary
    Ford noted the accuracy with which Wilson has drawn the architectural details of the monument. He also noted that the temple 'somewhat altered in shape, is the subject of a picture owned by T. Hastings, and etched by him in 1821.' [E72/14]
    Bibliography
    DYCE COLLECTION. A Catalogue of the Paintings, Miniatures, Drawings, Engravings, Rings and Miscellaneous Objects Bequeathed by The Reverend Alexander Dyce, London : South Kensington Museum, 1874; Ford 1951, pp. 57-58, no. 44; WGC, pp. 107, 197, pl. 74b

    Work of Art

    Prints

    • William Pengree Sherlock after Wilson, River, Sea-Coast and circular Ruin ('Morning'), The British Museum
    • Thomas Hastings after Wilson, Temple of Venus with Part of the Bay of Baiae, The British Museum
    • Thomas Hastings after Wilson, Landscape (River, Sea Coast and circular Ruin), The British Museum
    • Samuel William Reynolds after Wilson, Morning, The British Museum
    • Samuel William Reynolds after Wilson, Morning,The British Museum
    • Samuel William Reynolds after Wilson, Landscape with Ruins (Morning), Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
    • Samuel William Reynolds after Wilson, Morning, National Museum Wales, Cardiff
    • Samuel William Reynolds after Wilson, Morning, Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery

    Paintings

    • An Italian Landscape (Morning) Classical Landscape, Private Collection, England
    • River, Sea Coast and circular Ruin, Private Collection, England
    • An Italian Landscape, Morning (River, Sea-Coast and circular Ruin) (The Temple of Venus at Baiae), Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven

    Biographies

    • The Revd Alexander Dyce (1798-1869)

    Documents

    • William George Constable, Richard Wilson
    • Brinsley Ford, The Drawings of Richard Wilson
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