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    Spencer-Longhurst 2012
    Author
    Paul Spencer-Longhurst
    Title/Description
    'All the Quality of his Pictures except the Colour': Richard Wilson's Drawings as Collectors' Items
    Publisher
    Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
    Country
    London, UK
    Date of Publication
    2012
    Printed/Manuscript
    Secondary published
    Source Institution
    The Paul Mellon Centre
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    Essay contained in Windows on that World: Essays on British Art presented to Brian Allen (pp. 51-80). The context and function of Wilson's drawings are outlined but the main purpose of the essay is to survey some of the major private collections of the drawings made over the two centuries or so betweeen Wilson's departure for Italy in 1750 and the publication of Brinsley Ford's seminal book [Ford 1951]. It also explores how such private collections have created and nourished public ones in Britain and the USA.

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    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) The Cascade at Terni, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Study of Figures for 'Ego fui in Arcadia', Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Villa Borghesi (The Villa Borghese, Rome), The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Tivoli with the Temples of Vesta and the Sibyl and the Grand Cascade, National Museum Wales, Cardiff
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Lake Nemi, Tate, London
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) The Castle of St Angelo, Rome, Tate, London
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Coast Scene, near Barmouth, The British Museum
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Still-Life with Flask, The British Museum
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Life-size Head of a Man (Head of an Italian), Victoria & Albert Museum, London
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) A Roman Altar at Palestrina, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Banks of the Tiber, Rhode Island Museum of Art, School of Design, Providence
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Portrait of Thomas Jenkins, The Pierpont Morgan Library and Museum, New York
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Fishermen on a Rock in a River (Travellers marooned on a Rock in a River) , The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Landscape with the Crater of Vesuvius, Royal Academy of Arts, London
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