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    The Torre del Fiscale near Rome

    The Torre del Fiscale near Rome
    The Torre del Fiscale near Rome
    The Torre del Fiscale near Rome
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    The Torre del Fiscale near Rome
    Date
    c.1752-56 (undated)
    Medium
    Black and white chalk on paper
    Dimensions
    Metric: 256 x 197 mm
    Imperial: 10 1/16 x 7 13/16 in.
    Collection
    National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh. To license images click here.
    Accession Number
    D 4666
    Wilson Online Reference
    D181
    Exhibited
    London 1916 (11 - Landscape Sketch)
    Provenance
    Herbert Horne (1864-1916); Sir Edward Marsh (1872-1953); presented through the National Art Collections Fund 1953, from the collection of Sir Edward Marsh
    Signature/inscription
    Unsigned; inscribed verso
    Verso inscriptions
    [1] Black chalk: M[onte] Novo / Nissida
    [2] Slight topographical studies of mountains, presumably identified by the above inscription(s)
    Mount inscriptions
    [1] The London Burlington Fine Arts Club 1916 catalogue entry is adhered to the modern mount. It suggests incorrectly that this drawing probably shows a view near Naples and that the two sketches on the verso appear to have been taken from Pozzuoli.
    Subject
    The Torre del Fiscale is a square brick tower by the Via Appia Nuova near Rome, which was placed at a bend in an aqueduct in order to strengthen it.
    Related Paintings
    P187 The Torre del Fiscale, near Rome, Gloucester City Museum and Art Gallery
    Critical commentary
    D181 is a study for P187 in the collection of the Gloucester City Museum and Art Gallery, a small painting, little more than an oil sketch, by Wilson. In the painting the vegetation hanging from the archway is omitted, there is a third figure at the lower left and the tower is given a flat roof, but otherwise the composition is very similar.

    Bibliography
    Binyon 1916, p. 20; WGC, p.119, pl.77a; Constable 1954, p. 147, fig. 8; Baker 2011, p. 415

    Work of Art

    Paintings

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), The Torre del Fiscale, near Rome, Gloucester City Museum and Art Gallery

    Exhibitions

    • London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1916

    Biographies

    • Sir Edward Howard Marsh (1872-1953)
    • Herbert Horne (1864-1916)

    Documents

    • William George Constable, Richard Wilson
    • William George Constable, 'Richard Wilson: Some Pentimenti'
    • Christopher Baker, English Drawings and Watercolours 1600-1900, National Gallery of Scotland
    • Laurence Binyon, Exhibition of the Herbert Horne Collection of Drawings
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