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    The Outskirts of Rome under Snow

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    The Outskirts of Rome under Snow
    The Outskirts of Rome under Snow
    The Outskirts of Rome under Snow
    Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    The Outskirts of Rome under Snow
    Date
    Dated 1756
    Medium
    Black and white chalk and stump on faded grey-green paper
    Dimensions
    Metric: 174 x 192 mm
    Imperial: 6 7/8 x 7 9/16 in.
    Collection
    Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. To license image, click here.
    Accession Number
    WA1855.146
    Wilson Online Reference
    D341
    Description
    A wintry scene. In the foreground is a road leading back between a house with figures in a porch on the right and trees, some bare, on the left. A heavily muffled man and a child walk towards the lower left and another figure with a staff follows them further back. In the distance are open country and mountains. The composition is enclosed by two black chalk lines.
    Exhibited
    Kenwood 1974 (25)
    Provenance
    Chambers Hall Gift, 1855
    Signature/inscription
    [1] Signed in black chalk at lower left corner beneath the ruled line: R W f.
    [2] Inscribed and dated in black chalk, lower right: Romae 1756
    Techniques and materials
    Stump work can be seen in the trees and windows
    Collectors' marks
    [1] Recto lower left corner: Chambers Hall (Lugt 551)
    [2] Recto lower left corner: Oxford University Galleries (Lugt 2003)
    Critical commentary
    Highly atmospheric, perfectly recreating the desolation of winter in a poverty-stricken area outside Rome, this drawing provides evidence of Wilson's presence in Rome during the first or last months of 1756.
    Previous Cat/Ref Nos
    1900
    Bibliography
    WGC, p. 38; Brown 1982, pp. 664-65, no. 1900, pl. 549
    More Information
    Mounted with D377 Study of a Hill Crest and Clouds
    Condition/Conservation
    The discolouration of the grey paper in some places to a brownish grey may well result from the application of a wash to heighten the impression of a dark sky.

    Exhibitions

    • London, Kenwood House, Iveagh Bequest, 8 June - 27 August 1974

    Biographies

    • Chambers Hall (1786-1855)

    Documents

    • William George Constable, Richard Wilson
    • 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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