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    Artist
    Thomas Hastings after Wilson
    Title
    On Hounslow Heath
    Date
    Published 1820
    Medium
    Etching on chine collé
    Dimensions
    Metric: 125 x 176 mm
    Imperial: 4 7/8 x 6 15/16 in.
    Collection
    The British Museum. To license image, click here
    Accession Number
    1881,0312.21
    Wilson Online Reference
    E72/1A
    Description
    View on Hounslow Heath, with a woman seated on a rock in the foreground at the left, other figures in the distance and two cattle standing at the right on the bank of the River Crane. There are trees on an island at the centre middle ground with a windmill in the distance at the right.
    Provenance
    Donated by John Deffett Francis, 1881
    Signature/inscription
    Lettered below the image:
    [1] Lower left: 'R Wilson pinxit | RA'
    [2] Lower centre:. 'The Original in the Possession of Lady Ford of Gloucester Place. | ON HOUNSLOW HEATH.'
    [3] Lower right: 'T.Hastings fecit | 1820'
    Related Drawings
    D360 A View of On Hounslow Heath, Private Collection, UK, c/o Lowell Libson Ltd
    Versions
    See 'Links' tab
    Related Paintings
    P131 On Hounslow Heath, Tate, London (Lady Ford's painting) and other versions
    Critical commentary
    From a set of four etchings, sewn into white wrappers, sold by Colnaghi & Sons and published by Hurst, Robinson & Co.; one sheet with image cut and pasted onto the front wrapper, which is inscribed in pen and ink at the top: No1 | Proofs - India | 5s' and signed below: 'J. Deffett Francis.' See also E72/2A Near Rome, E72/3A Lake of Albano , E72/4A Villa Emelia .
    Bibliography
    Hastings 1825, p. 9. repr.; WGC, p. 178 under pl. 39b; Yule 2015, pp. 60 & 69
    Updated by Compiler
    2015-12-09 00:00:00

    Work of Art

    Drawings

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), A View of On Hounslow Heath, Private Collection, UK, c/o Lowell Libson Ltd

    Versions

    • Thomas Hastingsafter Wilson, On Hounslow Heath, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven
    • Thomas Hastingsafter Wilson, On Hounslow Heath, The British Museum

    Paintings

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), On Hounslow Heath, Tate, London
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), On Hounslow Heath, Tate, London
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), On Hounslow Heath, Collection of Richard L. Feigen & Co

    Biographies

    • Captain Thomas Hastings (1778-1854)
    • John Deffett Francis (1815-1901)

    Documents

    • William George Constable, Richard Wilson
    • Thomas Hastings, Etchings from the Works of Ric. Wilson, with some Memoirs of his Life &c.
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