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    Tivoli: The Temple of the Sibyl and the Campagna [untitled]

    Tivoli: The Temple of the Sibyl and the Campagna [untitled]
    Tivoli: The Temple of the Sibyl and the Campagna [untitled]
    Tivoli: The Temple of the Sibyl and the Campagna [untitled]
    Royal Academy of Arts, London
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    Artist
    William Byrne (1743-1805) after Wilson
    Title
    Tivoli: The Temple of the Sibyl and the Campagna [untitled]
    Date
    Published 1 August 1765
    Medium
    Etching and engraving
    Dimensions
    Metric: 303 X 405 mm
    Imperial: 11 15/16 x 15 15/16 in.
    Collection
    Royal Academy of Arts, London. To license image, click here.
    Accession Number
    05/3437
    Wilson Online Reference
    E15C
    Description
    A traveller is shown with a dog on a road in the foreground, asking a woman who sits knitting at the roadside for directions. Further left on the bank beyond a framing tree a man drawing in or consulting an open book is watched by a standing peasant. There is a valley below and classical buildings on a peak to the right, with a bridge or aqueduct and city buildings visible across the plains. Mountains can be seen in the distance.
    Exhibited
    London 2012 (unnumbered)
    Provenance
    Purchased from Thomas Cadell the younger's executors, 27 March 1844
    Versions
    See 'Links' tab
    Related Paintings
    P52 Tivoli: The Temple of the Sibyl and the Campagna - I, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
    P142 Tivoli: The Temple of the Sibyl and the Campagna - I , Private Collection, England
    P142B Tivoli: The Temple of the Sibyl and the Campagna - I, Tate, London
    P142C Tivoli: Temple of the Sibyl and the Campagna - I , Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
    Critical commentary
    E15C was engraved by Byrne after P142B Tivoli: The Temple of the Sibyl and the Campagna - I, Tate, London. The print confirms the success of Wilson's Tivoli views painted from memory and imagination in about 1765. However, the prospect is reversed in the print, though it retains the essential elements of any Tivoli view, i.e. the Temple of the Sibyl / Vesta at the summit of the cliffs, the waterfalls and the view over the Roman Campagna. An earlier version of the painting, possibly P52, was used by Wilson in Rome for his students to copy.
    Previous Cat/Ref Nos
    PL003687
    Bibliography
    Edwards 1808, p. 88
    Link to WG Constable Archive Record
    WGC/1/1/132
    Condition/Conservation
    Trimmed on all edges. Conserved 2012 by Emma Cox

    Work of Art

    Versions

    • William Byrne (1743-1805)after Wilson, Landscape - A Traveller with a Dog on a Road [untitled], The British Museum
    • William Byrne (1743-1805)after Wilson, Landscape - A Traveller with a Dog on a Road [untitled], The British Museum
    • William Byrne (1743-1805)after Wilson, Tivoli: The Temple of the Sibyl and the Campagna [untitled], Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven

    Paintings

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Tivoli: The Temple of the Sibyl and the Campagna - I, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Tivoli: The Temple of the Sibyl and the Campagna - I , Private Collection, England
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Tivoli: The Temple of the Sibyl and the Campagna - I, Tate, London
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Tivoli: Temple of the Sibyl and the Campagna - I , Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

    Exhibitions

    • London, Royal Academy, 8 December 2012 - 17 February 2013

    Biographies

    • William Byrne (1743-1805)

    Documents

    • Edward Edwards, Anecdotes of Painters who have resided or been born in England; with critical Remarks on their Productions
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