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Artist
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
Title
Italian Sketchbook - Drawings p. 13(v) Study of Trees near Water with Figures p. 14(r) Study of a Woman reclining on a Bed
Date
1754
Medium
Graphite with black and white chalk on medium, rough, blued white wove paper
Dimensions
Metric: 281 x 210 mm (each sheet)
Imperial: 11 1/16 x 8 1/4 in. (each sheet)
Details
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Collection
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven. To license images click here
Accession Number
B1977.14.359 v13 & r14
Wilson Online Reference
D280/13
Description
The left page depicts what appears to be a picnic taking place under trees near water. On the right page a girl in peasant costume reclines on a bed or bench in what is probably a grotto.
Exhibited
Oxford 1937 (64); New Haven, English Landscape, 1977 (15); London, Cardiff and New Haven, 1982-83 (39)
Provenance
Oldfield Bowles; given to Sir George Beaumont, 1784; thence by descent until 1963; Colnaghi & Co., London; sold to Paul Mellon
Signature/inscription
13(v) inscribed lower right: 24.4.P.
14(r) inscribed in black chalk upper left: [...]onardo of Camassea [?]
Subject
The identity of the woman remains unknown but she is in a similar pose to one of the lovers under the tree in D280/26 p. 27(r)
Related Drawings
D280/8
Italian Sketchbook
, p. 9(r)
D280/26
Italian Sketchbook
, p.27(r)
Critical commentary
13(v): Clements noted that the inscription '24.4.P' might refer to a day that Wilson spent with Lords Thanet, Pembroke, Essex and Bolingbroke in April 1754, sketching at the Villa of Maecenas, Tivoli. For another drawing of a bed see D280/8.
Previous Cat/Ref Nos
Object ID: 6363
Bibliography
Constable 1954, p. 143; Sutton & Clements 1968, vol. 1, pp. 12-13; vol. 2, p. 34; New Haven, English Landscape, 1977, pp. 10-11, pl. LIII; Solkin 1982, pp. 164-165; Galassi 1991, pp. 20-21, pl. 13
More Information
Only two sketchbooks by Wilson have survived - the present one (D280-D280/33) and D53-D53/81
Studies and Designs by R. Wilson done in Rome in the Year MDCCLII
, Victoria & Albert Museum, London (E.3586-1922).
Updated by Compiler
2019-03-05 00:00:00
Work of Art
Drawings
Italian Sketchbook
, p. 9(r)
Italian Sketchbook
, p.27(r)
Exhibitions
London, Tate Gallery, Cardiff, National Museum of Wales, and New Haven, Conn., Yale Center for British Art, 3 November 1982 - 19 June 1983
New Haven, Yale Center for British Art, 19 April - 17 July 1977
Biographies
Paul Mellon (1907-1999)
Oldfield Bowles (1739-1810)
Sir George Beaumont (1753-1827)
Documents
David Solkin,
Richard Wilson: The Landscape of Reaction
William George Constable, 'Richard Wilson: Some Pentimenti'
Denys Sutton & Ann Clements,
An Italian Sketchbook by Richard Wilson, RA: Drawings made by the Artist in Rome and its Environs in the Year 1754
Peter Galassi,
Corot in Italy. Open-Air Painting and the Classical-Landscape Tradition
Christopher White,
English Landscape 1630-1850: Drawings, Prints & Books from the Paul Mellon Collection
This drawing is part of the "Italian Sketchbook Drawings Yale Center for British Art 1754" sketchbook
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