The Falls at Isola del Liri

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Artist

Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)

Title

The Falls at Isola del Liri

Date

c.1755 (undated)

Medium

Black chalk and stump on laid paper, laid down

Dimensions

Metric: 267 x 405 mm
Imperial: 10 1/2 x 15 15/16 in.

Collection

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Harvard University Portrait Collection, Cambridge. To license images click here

Accession Number

2022.370

Wilson Online Reference

D337A

Description

View showing a large waterfall and bridge with figures crossing and a rocky riverbed below. To the left is an irregular castello with a classical porch, and below are domestic buildings. Three figures are working on a boat in the foreground.

Exhibited

London, Guy Peppiatt Fine Art, British Drawings and Watercolours, 2022 (5).

Provenance

William Lock of Norbury; [...] Iolo Williams; Edward Croft-Murray (1907-1980); Sotheby's 10 July 1980 (137); [...] Woolley & Wallis, Salisbury 11 August 2021 (401); with Guy Peppiatt Fine Art, London; bt Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Donald Outerbridge & Robert M. Light Commemorative Drawing Purchase Fund, 2022

Signature/inscription

Unsigned

Mount inscriptions

[1] Inscribed lower right on secondary support: A.22126
[2] Inscribed lower centre of secondary support, pencil: Waterfall

Subject

The view is very probably of the Cascata Grande, Isola del Liri, near Frosinine, south-east of Rome, with the Castello Buoncompagni on the left, overlooking the falls.

Related Works by Other Artists

Robert Adam, The Falls of Liri, Sora, Italy, about June 1756, contained in the album The Travel Drawings of Robert and James Adam, vol. 1/243, Sir John Soane's Museum, London

Bibliography

Ford 1951, p. 33; WGC, p. 211, under pl. 98b

Condition/Conservation

Line mounted laid down on paper, laid down on card.

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