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    A Roman Altar at Palestrina

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    A Roman Altar at Palestrina
    A Roman Altar at Palestrina
    A Roman Altar at Palestrina
    Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    A Roman Altar at Palestrina
    Date
    c.1752-56 (undated)
    Medium
    Black chalk heightened with white on brownish-grey paper
    Dimensions
    Metric: 148 x 143 mm
    Imperial: 5 3/4 x 5 1/2 in.
    Collection
    Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. To license image, click here.
    Accession Number
    WA1855.134
    Wilson Online Reference
    D172
    Provenance
    Chambers Hall Gift, 1855
    Signature/inscription
    Inscribed by the artist in black chalk above the lower margin: 'at Palestrina'
    Collectors' marks
    [1] Lower right corner: Chambers Hall (Lugt 551)
    [2] Lower left corner: Oxford University Galleries (Lugt 2003)
    Mount inscriptions
    [1] Recto upper right corner on old washline mount in reinforced brown ink: No 6
    Subject
    An ancient altar is shown, carved with Victories holding swags. The town of Palestrina is about 20 kms south of Tivoli.
    Related Prints
    E72/2 Hastings after Wilson, 'Near Rome, 1820, The British Museum
    E72/38 Hastings after Wilson, View on the Tiber with Rome in the Distance, The British Museum
    Related Paintings
    P64A A View of the Tiber with Rome in the Distance, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
    P156 Near Rome, Private Collection, England
    Critical commentary
    As noted by Ford, altars carved with swags appear in Wilson's paintings, such as P64A A View of the Tiber with Rome in the Distance, Yale Center for British Art and P156 Near Rome, Private Collection, England.
    Previous Cat/Ref Nos
    1898
    Bibliography
    Ford 1951, p. 53, no. 13; WGC, pp. 221-22 under pl. 113b; Brown 1982, p. 664, no. 1898, pl. 547; Spencer-Longhurst 2012, pp. 65, 67, fig. 37
    More Information
    Mounted with D19 A Sandalo, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford (WA1855.148)

    Work of Art

    Prints

    • Thomas Hastings after Wilson, Near Rome, The British Museum
    • Thomas Hastings after Wilson, Near Rome, The British Museum
    • Thomas Hastings after Wilson, View on the Tiber with Rome in the Distance, The British Museum

    Paintings

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), A View of the Tiber with Rome in the Distance, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Near Rome, Private Collection, England

    Biographies

    • Chambers Hall (1786-1855)

    Documents

    • William George Constable, Richard Wilson
    • Brinsley Ford, The Drawings of Richard Wilson
    • Paul Spencer-Longhurst, 'All the Quality of his Pictures except the Colour': Richard Wilson's Drawings as Collectors' Items
    • David Blayney Brown, Catalogue of the Collection of Drawings in the Ashmolean Museum, Volume IV: The Earlier British Drawings, British Artists and Foreigners working in Britain born before c.1775
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