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    The Broken Bridge at Narni

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    The Broken Bridge at Narni
    The Broken Bridge at Narni
    The Broken Bridge at Narni
    Plymouth City Council (Arts and Heritage)
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    The Broken Bridge at Narni
    Date
    Undated
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    Metric: 40 x 70 cm
    Imperial: 15 3/4 x 27 9/16 in.
    Collection
    Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery. To license images click here.
    Accession Number
    1975.20.
    Wilson Online Reference
    P66D
    Provenance
    Lady Beryl Gilbert, Revesby Abbey, Lincolnshire; Christie's 8 February 1918 (152), bt Agnew; 1924 sold to Arthur Meyer; 1975, bt by Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery
    Subject
    The bridge was built in the first century A.D. and carried the Via Flaminia north from Rome across the Nera River, which flowed at the foot of the ancient town of Narnia, later called Narni. By the 18th century the bridge had long been a ruin, with only one of its three massive arches remaining, together with the bases of the two others.
    Related Prints
    E72/27 Thomas Hastings Untitled (Landscape Capriccio on the Via Aemilia), The British Museum (1854,0708.84) and other impressions
    Related Works by Other Artists
    This is closely related to Claude Lorrain's Landscape with the Flight into Egypt, 1663, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, in Wilson's day at the Palazzo Colonna, Rome
    Critical commentary
    A strong visual message of the work is the history of declining ancient civilisation and its potential application to eighteenth-century Britain.
    Bibliography
    WGC, pl. 90a
    Link to WG Constable Archive Record
    WGC/1/1/99

    Work of Art

    Prints

    • Thomas Hastings after Wilson, Untitled (Landscape Capriccio on the Via Aemilia), The British Museum

    Versions

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Landscape Capriccio on the Via Aemilia, with the Temple of the Sibyl at Tivoli and the broken Bridge at Narni, Private Collection, England
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Landscape Capriccio on the Via Aemilia, with the Temple of the Sibyl at Tivoli and the Broken Bridge at Narni, Private Collection, New York
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Italian River Landscape with a broken Bridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

    Documents

    • William George Constable, Richard Wilson
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