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    Studies & Designs: Extensive View with Sarcophagus on a Pedestal
    Studies & Designs: Extensive View with Sarcophagus on a Pedestal
    National Museum Wales, Cardiff
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    Artist
    John Whessell (c.1760-1806) after Wilson
    Title
    Studies & Designs: Extensive View with Sarcophagus on a Pedestal
    Date
    Published 1811
    Medium
    Soft-ground etching on India laid paper
    Dimensions
    Metric: 99 x 144 mm
    Imperial: 3 /78 x 5 5/8 in.
    Collection
    National Museum Wales, Cardiff. To license image, click here.
    Accession Number
    NMW A 10948
    Wilson Online Reference
    E60/9A
    Description
    View over fields with a group of trees and a lake or broad river. In the left foreground is the corner of a building and a pedestal bearing a massive sarcophagus - 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 centre, pencil: 33
    [2] Lower right, pencil: Architectural Study
    Related Drawings
    D53/22 Studies and Designs done in Rome in the Year 1752, p. 22
    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. 22 (D53/22). In 1811 the etchings were published by the Oxford-based publisher, Robert Archer in more than one format.
    Bibliography
    Archer 1811, p. 33
    Updated by Compiler
    2017-09-18 00:00:00

    Work of Art

    Drawings

    • Studies and Designs done in Rome in the Year 1752, p. 22

    Versions

    • John Whessell (c.1760-1806)after Wilson, Studies & Designs: Extensive View with Sarcophagus on a Pedestal, 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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