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    Cooper 1948 2
    Author
    Douglas Cooper
    Title/Description
    'Richard Wilson's Views of Kew'
    Publisher
    The Burlington Magazine
    Country
    London, UK
    Date of Publication
    December 1948
    Printed/Manuscript
    Secondary published
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    Vol. 90, no. 549, pp. 346-48 The article identifies both Wilson's pictures of Kew, P108 The Ruined Arch in Kew Gardens and P109 Kew Gardens: The Pagoda and Palladian Bridge, exhibited at the Society of Artists in May 1762 (130 & 131). The author reveals that 'for well over a hundred years [P108] has been mistakenly known as Villa Borghese [...] a striking example of the way in which Wilson's classical transformations of an English landscape can prove deceptive.' Cooper dates the paintings 1761-62 and comments that 'Wilson evidently regarded the two views as a pair, yet there is no great similarity between them'.

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    Paintings

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Kew Gardens: The Pagoda and Palladian Bridge, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) The Ruined Arch in Kew Gardens, Private Collection, England

    Drawings

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) A Ruin, Arch at Kew Gardens, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea
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