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    Studies & Designs: View of a ruined Tower with three Figures
    Studies & Designs: View of a ruined Tower with three Figures
    National Museum Wales, Cardiff
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    Artist
    John Whessell (c.1760-1806) after Wilson
    Title
    Studies & Designs: View of a ruined Tower with three Figures
    Date
    Published 1811
    Medium
    Soft-ground etching on India laid paper
    Dimensions
    Metric: 108 x 158 mm
    Imperial: 4 1/4 x 6 3/16 in.
    Collection
    National Museum Wales, Cardiff. To license image, click here.
    Accession Number
    NMW A 10971
    Wilson Online Reference
    E60/16A
    Description
    View of a ruined tower with three figures gathered in front and others riding away on horseback in the left background - all within an etched rectangular border
    Provenance
    Thomas Henry Thomas Bequest 1916
    Signature/inscription
    Lettered below the image: Wilson del. | Whessell Sc Oxon
    Mount inscriptions
    [1] Lower centre, pencil: 18
    [2] Lower right, pencil: Architectural Ruins
    Related Drawings
    D53/15 Studies and Designs done in Rome in the Year 1752, p. 15, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
    D361 Ruin and Figures, The British Museum (1881,0212.26)
    D361A Landscape: Road winding past Ruins of a Castle, Victoria & Albert Museum, London (Dyce.645)
    Related Prints
    E72/16 Thomas Hastings after Wilson, Untitled, The British Museum (1854,0708.73) and other impressions
    Versions
    See 'Links' tab
    Related Paintings
    P168 Ruined Tower with a Figure Bristol City Museum & Art Gallery
    P168A Two Figures by a Ruin, Felbrigg Hall, National Trust
    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.15 (D53/15). 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. 18
    Condition/Conservation
    Proof state
    Updated by Compiler
    2017-09-20 00:00:00

    Work of Art

    Drawings

    • Studies and Designs done in Rome in the Year 1752, p. 15, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
    • Ruin and Figures, The British Museum (1881,0212.26)
    • Landscape: Road winding past Ruins of a Castle, Victoria & Albert Museum, London (Dyce.645)

    Prints

    • Thomas Hastings after Wilson, Untitled, The British Museum

    Versions

    • John Whessell (c.1760-1806)after Wilson, Studies & Designs: View of a ruined Tower with three Figures, The British Museum

    Paintings

    • Ruined Tower with a Figure Bristol City Museum & Art Gallery
    • Two figures by a Ruin, Felbrigg Hall, National Trust

    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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