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    Landscape: Road winding past Ruins of a Castle

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    Landscape: Road winding past Ruins of a Castle
    Landscape: Road winding past Ruins of a Castle
    Landscape: Road winding past Ruins of a Castle
    Victoria & Albert Museum, London
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    Landscape: Road winding past Ruins of a Castle
    Date
    c.1765 (undated)
    Medium
    Black chalk and stump, heightened with white, on brown paper, softened with stump and stuck down at corners on cream paper
    Dimensions
    Metric: 146 x 204 mm
    Imperial: 5 3/4 x 8 1/16 in.
    Collection
    Victoria & Albert Museum, London. To license image, click here
    Accession Number
    DYCE.645
    Wilson Online Reference
    D361A
    Description
    Landscape with a road winding past the ruins of a castle which is on the right. Under a projecting and broken arch, there are three figures, two standing and one seated. The rays of the sun are pouring on them from an opening in the heavily-clouded sky. In the distance to the left, there is a square tower.
    Provenance
    Bequeathed by the Revd Alexander Dyce
    Signature/inscription
    [1] Monogram lower left: RW. [the R reversed]
    [2] Inscribed in black ink lower right: 645
    Verso inscriptions
    According to a pencil inscription on the modern support, signed in old hand: Richard Wilson | £1 11-6
    Mount inscriptions
    [1] Recto: Graphite on cut-out label stuck on lower right: R. Wilson
    Subject
    The location may have been Burton Ferry, Glamorganshire
    Related Prints
    E60/16 John Whessell after Wilson, Studies & Designs: View of a ruined Tower with three Figures gathered in front, The British Museum and other impressions
    E72/16 Thomas Hastings after Wilson, Untitled, The British Museum and other impressions
    Versions
    See 'Links' tab
    Related Paintings
    P168 Ruined Tower with a Figure, Bristol City Museum and Gallery
    P168A Two Figures by a Ruin, Felbrigg Hall, National Trust
    Critical commentary
    Ford believed that this drawing was probably based on D361, in which detail is less developed and the light effects less dramatic
    Bibliography
    DYCE COLLECTION. A Catalogue of the Paintings, Miniatures, Drawings, Engravings, Rings and Miscellaneous Objects Bequeathed by The Reverend Alexander Dyce, London : South Kensington Museum, 1874, p. 96; Ford 1951, p. 57, no. 41; WGC, p. 221, pl. 112c
    Link to WG Constable Archive Record
    WGC/1/1/129
    More Information
    Previously mounted with DYCE.640
    Condition/Conservation
    In good condition

    Work of Art

    Prints

    • John Whessell (c.1760-1806) after Wilson Studies & Designs: View of a ruined Tower with three Figures gathered in front, The British Museum
    • John Whessell (c.1760-1806) after Wilson Architectural Ruins, National Museum Wales, Cardiff
    • Thomas Hastings after Wilson, Untitled, The British Museum

    Versions

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Ruin and Figures, The British Museum

    Paintings

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Ruined Tower with a Figure, Bristol City Museum & Art Gallery
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Two Figures by a Ruin, Felbrigg Hall, National Trust

    Biographies

    • The Revd Alexander Dyce (1798-1869)

    Documents

    • William George Constable, Richard Wilson
    • Brinsley Ford, The Drawings of Richard Wilson
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