Porta di Po

Porta di Po
Porta di Po
Porta di Po
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Bequest of Warren H. Lowenhaupt
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Artist
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
Title
Porta di Po
Date
1751 (undated)
Medium
Red chalk
Dimensions
Metric: 162 x 200 mm
Imperial: 6 3/8 x 7 7/8 in.
Collection
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
Accession Number
1967.482
Wilson Online Reference
D415
Exhibited
London 1925 (74B)
Provenance
By descent to Captain Richard Ford, 53, Ennismore Gardens, London S.W.; Christie's, 17 June 1929 (12 - bt by Parsons with D22 Ponte Vigo, Chioggia and two others (£27.6s.)) [...] Bequest of Warren H. Lowenhaupt, 1967
Signature/inscription
Inscribed upper left: Porta di Po
Verso inscriptions
[1] Upper right, pencil: 397 [at 90 degrees]
[2] Lower right, pencil: 11 [illegible] 12
[3] Lower left, pencil: 1967.482
Critical commentary
Probably one of a series of drawings made by Wilson during his journey from Venice to Rome during the winter of 1751 in the company of William Lock and Thomas Jenkins. The River Po, which runs across northern Italy from west to east, passes through Ferrara, which Wilson visited. If recording a precise location this drawing may have been executed in the neighbourhood of Porto Viro, the last major port before the river empties into the Adriatic.