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    Banks of the Tiber

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    Banks of the Tiber
    Banks of the Tiber
    Rhode Island Museum of Art, School of Design, Providence
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    Banks of the Tiber
    Date
    Dated 1757
    Medium
    Red and white chalks on tan laid paper
    Dimensions
    Metric: 168 x 219 mm
    Imperial: 6 5/8 x 8 5/8 in.
    Collection
    Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design, Providence. To license image, click here.
    Accession Number
    2006.122.9
    Wilson Online Reference
    D344
    Exhibited
    London, Agnews, January 1958, Water-colour Drawings; London, Cardiff and New Haven, 1982-83 (58); Providence, Rhode Island School of Design, September 2011-June 2012 Distant Climes: 18th-Century British Views of Italy.
    Provenance
    Earl of Warwick; Christie's 20 May 1896 (probably part of lot 444 or 445); Charles Fairfax Murray; Mrs F.L. Evans, London 1953; Christie's 6 June 1972 (47) [...] anonymous gift 2006
    Signature/inscription
    Signed lower left corner: R W f.
    Dated lower right corner: 1757
    Inscribed lower centre: Banks of the Tiber
    Collectors' marks
    [1] Recto, lower right corner: Earl of Warwick (Lugt 2600)
    Related Prints
    E72/29 Thomas Hastings after Wilson, On the Tiber, The British Museum
    Related Paintings
    P103 On the Tiber, Private Collection, England
    P144 The White Monk - I, Toledo Museum of Art
    Critical commentary
    Possibly linked with the genesis of the White Monk compositions, in some of which a similar building appears
    Bibliography
    Ford 1951, p. 35, n. 1; WGC, pp 38 & 222 under pl. 114; Solkin 1982, pp. 176-177; Spencer-Longhurst 2012, pp. 68-69, fig. 39
    Link to WG Constable Archive Record
    WGC/1/1/130

    Work of Art

    Prints

    • Thomas Hastings after Wilson, On the Tiber, The British Museum

    Paintings

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), On the Tiber, Private Collection, England
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), The White Monk - I, Toledo Museum of Art

    Exhibitions

    • London, Tate Gallery, Cardiff, National Museum of Wales, and New Haven, Conn., Yale Center for British Art, 3 November 1982 - 19 June 1983

    Biographies

    • George Guy Greville Brooke, 4th Earl of Warwick (1818-1893)

    Documents

    • William George Constable, Richard Wilson
    • David Solkin, Richard Wilson: The Landscape of Reaction
    • Paul Spencer-Longhurst, 'All the Quality of his Pictures except the Colour': Richard Wilson's Drawings as Collectors' Items
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