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    Studies & Designs: View of a Castle with a square Tower to the Right
    Studies & Designs: View of a Castle with a square Tower to the Right
    Studies & Designs: View of a Castle with a square Tower to the Right
    National Museum Wales, Cardiff
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    Artist
    John Whessell (c.1760-1806) after Wilson
    Title
    Studies & Designs: View of a Castle with a square Tower to the Right
    Date
    Published 1811
    Medium
    Soft-ground etching on India laid paper
    Dimensions
    Metric: 99 x 150 mm
    Imperial: 3 7/8 x 5 7/8 in.
    Collection
    National Museum Wales, Cardiff. To license image, click here.
    Accession Number
    NMW A 10947
    Wilson Online Reference
    E60/19A
    Description
    View of a castle, partly in shadow, with a square tower to the right, umbrella pines to the left and an arcade of arches at the base, seen from below a raised bank - all within an etched rectangular border
    Provenance
    Thomas Henry Thomas Bequest 1916
    Signature/inscription
    Lettered below the image: Wilson del. | Whessell Sc
    Mount inscriptions
    [1] Lower right, pencil: 'A Castle'
    Related Drawings
    D53/29 Studies and Designs done in Rome in the Year 1752, p. 29, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
    Versions
    See 'Links' tab
    Critical commentary
    From a set of small soft-ground etchings by Whessell made after Wilson's drawings in a sketchbook at the Victoria & Albert Museum (D53-D53/81). The present one is taken from p. 29 (D53/29). In 1811 the etchings were published by the Oxford-based publisher, Robert Archer in more than one format.
    Previous Cat/Ref Nos
    16.182
    Bibliography
    Archer 1811, p. 11
    Condition/Conservation
    Proof state

    Work of Art

    Drawings

    • Studies and Designs done in Rome in the Year 1752, p. 29, Victoria & Albert Museum, London

    Versions

    • John Whessell (c.1760-1806)after Wilson, Studies & Designs: View of a Castle with a square Tower to the Right, The British Museum

    Biographies

    • John Whessell (Active 1760-1799)
    • Robert Archer (1811)

    Documents

    • Robert Archer, Studies and Designs by Richard Wilson, done at Rome in the Year 1752
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