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    View of Rome
    View of Rome
    View of Rome
    The Trustees of the British Museum
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    Artist
    Samuel Middiman (1750-1831) after Wilson
    Title
    View of Rome
    Date
    1807
    Medium
    Etching and engraving
    Dimensions
    Metric: 332 x 377 mm
    Imperial: 13 1/16 x 14 13/16 in.
    Collection
    The British Museum. To license image, click here
    Accession Number
    1927,0218.41
    Wilson Online Reference
    E59B
    Description
    Landscape with the city of Rome in the background and St Peter's to the left, seen from a between groups of trees on a verdant hillside above. A man is driving livestock down a path to the left. A second man is sitting on a basket, talking to a woman and child, next to a remnant of ancient sculpture with a relief of a woman in profile.
    Provenance
    Purchased from W.T. Searle, 1927
    Signature/inscription
    Scratched below the image:
    [1] Upper left: Painted by R. Wilson'
    [2] Upper right: 'Etched by S. Middiman'
    [3] Inscribed lower left, pencil: 'First Proof'
    Related Drawings
    D311 View of St Peter's and the Vatican from the Janiculum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
    Related Paintings
    P57 Rome: St Peter's and the Vatican from the Janiculum, Tate, London
    P57A St Peter's and the Vatican from the Janiculum, Rome, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
    Critical commentary
    The final state was plate 3 with an account on the facing page of The British Gallery of Engravings, by the Revd Edward Forster, published by William Miller, 50 Albemarle Street, London, 1807
    Condition/Conservation
    Scratched-letter state

    Work of Art

    Drawings

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), View of St Peter's and the Vatican from the Janiculum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

    Versions

    • Samuel Middiman (1750-1831)after Wilson, View of Rome, The British Museum
    • Samuel Middiman (1750-1831)after Wilson, View of Rome, The British Museum

    Paintings

    • Rome: St Peter's and the Vatican from the Janiculum, Tate, London
    • St Peter's and the Vatican from the Janiculum, Rome, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
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