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    Iolo Williams, 1890-1962
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    Iolo Aneurin Williams was a notable Welsh bibliophile, writer, journalist and collector of works on paper, whose Wilsons included the following drawings, all now at Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven:
    D61 The Cascade at Terni
    D95 Three Figures standing by rocky Cliffs, two Horsemen in the Distance
    D233 Sculpted Plinth in the Villa Medici (Ancient Altar in the Villa Medici)
    D246 Ruined Temple of Minerva, Two Figures on River Bank

    From 1937 he served as the Museums Correspondent of The Times and in 1952 published his monumental book, Early English Watercolours, which listed and discussed the work of over 600 British draughtsmen. In 1960 he gave the British Museum a group of 24 drawings by English artists from his collection and on his death bequeathed a further 65. A further 40 of his drawings were sold by his family at Sotheby's on 31 March 1999.
    Significant institutions
    The Department of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum, where an exhibition of his bequest was held in November 1962

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    Drawings

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Ruined Temple of Minerva, Two Figures on River Bank, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Three Figures standing by rocky Cliffs, two Horsemen in the Distance, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Sculpted Plinth in the Villa Medici (Ancient Altar in the Villa Medici), Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) The Cascade at Terni, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) The Falls at Isola del Liri , Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Harvard University Portrait Collection, Cambridge
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