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Classical landscape with figures

Maker

(artist)
1714-1782

Title

Classical landscape with figures

Medium

black and white chalk with stumping on laid paper prepared with a pink wash, cut into a circle and framed in black chalk

Dimensions

Diameter: 15.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.880

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Label Text

Wilson made a number of drawings like this, in a circular format, using stump rather than line work for modelling, and using a generalised classical imagery rather than showing actual Italian scenes. The drawings appear to be finished works produced for sale, although they seem to have been more popular with fellow artists than with any wider public; two other examples in the Courtauld collections were formerly owned by Nathaniel Hone and Paul Sandby.

Provenance

John Postle Heseltine, London (1843-1929) [according to Witt card]; Walker Galleries (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d. (£3.4); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

English Landscape Drawing and Watercolours, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/05/1977-01/06/1977

Richard Wilson and John Constable, Oxford Arts Club, 26/10/1937-18/11/1937

Literature

English Landscape Drawing and Watercolours, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1977
cat. no. 4

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 58

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: R Wilson

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