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    Lake Albano and Castel Gandolfo

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    Lake Albano and Castel Gandolfo
    Lake Albano and Castel Gandolfo
    Lake Albano and Castel Gandolfo
    Victoria & Albert Museum, London
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    Lake Albano and Castel Gandolfo
    Date
    c.1752-54 (undated)
    Medium
    Black chalk heightened with white on grey paper
    Dimensions
    Metric: 264 x 417 mm
    Imperial: 10 5/12 x 16 5/12 in.
    Collection
    Victoria & Albert Museum, London. To license image, click here
    Accession Number
    DYCE.646
    Wilson Online Reference
    D163
    Description
    This drawing depicts the church and palace of Castel Gandolfo as seen from across Lake Albano. The high bank beneath the castle is richly studded with trees.
    Exhibited
    London, Cardiff and New Haven, 1982-83 (41)
    Provenance
    Bequeathed by the Revd Alexander Dyce 1859
    Signature/inscription
    Unsigned; inscribed:
    [1] Lower right corner in ink: 646
    [2] On secondary support (see 'Mount Inscriptions')
    Mount inscriptions
    [1] Lower right corner on secondary support: 264
    Labels
    [1] Cartellino adhered to secondary support at lower right corner with inscriptions in black ink: 'Castello | Gondolfo' and in a different hand: 'Wilson'
    Subject
    Castel Gandolfo, summer residence of the popes, was a traditional subject for Italian seventeenth-century landscape-painters and became so again for British artists in the 18th century.
    Related Drawings
    D312 Castel Gandolfo and Lake Albano, Location Unknown
    D314 Monte Cavo in the Alban Hills, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California
    Related Paintings
    P118 Lake Albano, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
    P188A Lake Albano, Private Collection, England
    P188B Lake Albano (Composite Landscape with Lake Albano and Vesuvius), The Provost and Fellows of Eton College
    Critical commentary
    This may well be the preliminary drawing for D312 (see 'Related Drawings'), to which it is close, although the hillside and buildings are drawn from a nearer viewpoint.
    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, p. 96; Sandby 1892, p. 91 [?]; Ford 1948, fig. 2; Ford 1951, p. 61, no. 67; WGC, pp. 107, 108, 111, 191, pl. 64a; Solkin 1982, pp. 166-167

    Work of Art

    Drawings

    • Castello Gondolpho, Location Unknown
    • Monte Cavo in the Alban Hills, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California

    Prints

    • Thomas Hastings after Wilson, The Lake of Albano, The British Museum

    Paintings

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Lake Albano, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Lake Albano, Private Collection, England
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Lake Albano (Composite Landscape with Lake Albano and Vesuvius), The Provost and Fellows of Eton College

    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

    • The Revd Alexander Dyce (1798-1869)

    Documents

    • William George Constable, Richard Wilson
    • David Solkin, Richard Wilson: The Landscape of Reaction
    • Brinsley Ford, The Drawings of Richard Wilson
    • Brinsley Ford, 'The Dartmouth Collection of Drawings by Richard Wilson'
    • William Sandby, Thomas and Paul Sandby, Royal Academicians
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