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    View of Rome and the Ponte Molle
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    Artist
    Ascribed to Wilson
    Title
    View of Rome and the Ponte Molle
    Date
    Undated
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    Metric: 94 x 132.7 cm
    Imperial: 37 x 52 1/4 in.
    Collection
    Location Unknown
    Wilson Online Reference
    P64B
    Description
    Rome is viewed from near the Ponte Molle, constructed in 109 BC, on the usual route into the city for the eighteenth-century traveller approaching from the north. The bridge, shown at an oblique angle to the left, retains the fifteenth-century guard tower since demolished. To the right, in silhouette at the summit of Monte Mario is the Villa Mellini, while nearer and lower is the Villa Madama. In the centre beyond the winding Tiber are Castel Sant' Angelo (Mausoleum of Hadrian) and St Peter's.
    Exhibited
    Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 1886, no.762
    Provenance
    Duke of Hamilton; Hamilton Palace sale, Christie's 8 July 1882 (1075 - Distant View of Rome: Sunset), bt Agnew (£1.050); 1904, David Jardine, High Lee, Woolton, Liverpool; his sale, Christie's 16 March 1917 (138 - A View of Ancient Rome: Sunset), bt Sulley & Co. (£63); Anon. (with Lansdowne), Christie's 7 March 1930 (104 - A View of Ancient Rome: Sunset), bt Bale (£210); Major L. Gardner; Christie's, London 18 December 1953 (75); with Montagne Bernard, 1954; Sotheby's London, 23 March 1966 (90); Anon., Sotheby's Gleneagles, Perthshire, 31 August 1967 (75), bt Frensham (£1,800); with Oscar & Peter Johnson; Sotheby's 29 November 2001 (156); Private Collection
    Signature/inscription
    Unsigned, no inscription
    Related Drawings
    D172 A Roman Altar at Palestrina, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
    D228 Ionic Capitals, Private Collection, England
    D302 Ponte Molle, Monte Mario, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California
    D329 A Wall overgrown with Plants, National Museum Wales, Cardiff
    Related Prints
    E72/38 Thomas Hastings after Wilson, View on the Tiber with Rome in the Distance, The British Museum and other impressions
    Versions
    See 'Links' tab
    Related Works by Other Artists
    [1] Francis Towne (1739-1816): View on the Banks of the Tiber, watercolour, 1780, The British Museum (Nn,2.12)
    [2] Francis Towne: St Peter's at Sunset, from above the Arco Oscuro, watercolour, 1781 (Nn,1.14)
    [3] Francis Towne: The Ponte Molle, watercolour, 1781, The British Museum (Nn,1.20)
    Critical commentary
    Differs from P64 in minor details but mainly in having two thinner cypress trees at the extreme right rather than sited more centrally, and a stone altar instead of a milestone in the lower left corner. The compiler has not seen this painting, which is therefore listed as ascribed.
    Bibliography
    WGC, p. 220. pl. 109b (version)
    Link to WG Constable Archive Record
    WGC/1/1/126

    Work of Art

    Drawings

    • Ponte Molle, Monte Mario, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
    • A Roman Altar at Palestrina, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
    • Ionic Capitals, Private Collection, England
    • A Wall overgrown with Plants, National Museum Wales, Cardiff

    Prints

    • Thomas Hastings after Wilson, View on the Tiber with Rome in the Distance, The British Museum

    Versions

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Rome from the Ponte Molle, National Museum Wales, Cardiff
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) A View of the Tiber with Rome in the Distance (Rome from the Ponte Molle), Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven

    Biographies

    • David Jardine (died 1917)

    Documents

    • William George Constable, Richard Wilson
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