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    Studies & Designs: Landscape with a round Tower and Bridge
    Studies & Designs: Landscape with a round Tower and Bridge
    Studies & Designs: Landscape with a round Tower and Bridge
    National Museum Wales, Cardiff
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    Artist
    John Whessell (c.1760-1806) after Wilson
    Title
    Studies & Designs: Landscape with a round Tower and Bridge
    Date
    Published 1811
    Medium
    Soft-ground etching on India laid paper
    Dimensions
    Metric: 113 x 154 mm
    Imperial: 4 7/16 x 6 1/16 in.
    Collection
    National Museum Wales, Cardiff. To license image, click here.
    Accession Number
    NMW A 10975
    Wilson Online Reference
    E60/15A
    Description
    In the left foreground a lone fisherman sits beneath some trees. Beyond in the centre stands a prominent round tower next to a lake. It is linked to the land on the right by a bridge of three arches. Mountains are seen in the background.
    Provenance
    Thomas Henry Thomas Bequest, 1916
    Signature/inscription
    Lettered under the image: 'Wilson del | Whessell Sc'
    Mount inscriptions
    [1] Lower centre, pencil: 32
    [2] Lower right, pencil: Landscape with castle + bridge
    Related Drawings
    D53/9 Studies and Designs done in Rome in the Year 1752, p. 9, 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 print is taken from p. 9 (D53/9). 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. 32
    Condition/Conservation
    Proof state

    Work of Art

    Drawings

    • Studies and Designs done in Rome in the Year 1752, p. 9, Victoria & Albert Museum, London

    Versions

    • John Whessell (c.1760-1806)after Wilson, Studies & Designs: Landscape with a round Tower and Bridge, 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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