Richard Wilson, 1713/4–1782, British, active in Italy (1750–56)
Title:
The Arbra Sacra on the Banks of Lake Nemi
Date:
between 1754 and 1756
Materials & Techniques:
Black chalk and white chalk on moderately thick, moderately textured, greened white laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 5/16 × 22 inches (38.9 × 55.9 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, on back, lower right: "RICHARD WILSON: ANCIENT TREE"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.4655
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
landscape | tree | lake | Grand Tour
Associated Places:
Europe | Italy | Lazio | Roma | Lago di Nemi
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Richard Wilson and the Transformation of European Landscape Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-03-06 - 2014-06-01)An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Royal Academy of Arts, 2007-10-20 - 2008-01-27)Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)Thomas Jones (1742-1803) (National Museum Wales, 2003-05-21 - 2003-08-10)Thomas Jones (1742-1803) (Whitworth Art Gallery, 2003-08-22 - 2003-10-26)The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)The Art of Paul Sandby (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-04-10 - 1985-06-23)Richard Wilson - The Landscape of Reaction (Tate Britain, 1982-11-03 - 1983-01-02)Richard Wilson - The Landscape of Reaction (National Museum Wales, 1983-01-29 - 1983-03-20)Richard Wilson - The Landscape of Reaction (Yale Center for British Art, 1983-04-20 - 1983-06-19)British Painting and the European Continent (Haus der Kunst Munich, 1979-11-20 - 1980-01-27)English Landscape (Paul Mellon Collection) 1630-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-07-17)
Publications:
John Baskett, English drawings and watercolors, 1550-1850, in the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon , The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 1972, p. 21, no. 26, NC228 B37+ (YCBA)John Baskett, Paul Mellon's Legacy: a Passion for British Art: Masterpieces from the Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, p. 251, no. 21, p. 21, N5220 M552 P38 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Hugh Belsey, Exhibition reviews : Paul Mellon's legacy : New Haven and London, Burlington Magazine, vol. 149, October 2007, pp. 715-6, fig. 56, N1 .B87 Oversize (YCBA)John Gage, Zwei Jahrhunderte englische Malerei : britische Kunst und Europa 1680 bis 1880 : [Ausstellung] Haus der Kunst Mèunchen, 21. November 1979 bis 27. Januar 1980: [Katalog], , Ausstellungsleitung Haus der Kunst München, Munich, 1979, pp. 206-07, no. 104, fig. 104, ND466 Z85 (YCBA)Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 2, no. 21, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Martin Postle, Richard Wilson and the transformation of European landscape painting, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2014, pp. 310, 311, no. 135, NJ18.W72 R53 2014 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Greg Smith, Thomas Jones (1742-1803) : an artist rediscovered, , Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2003, p. 129, no. 19, pl. . no. 19, NJ18 J714 T56 2003 OVERSIZE (YCBA)David H. Solkin, Richard Wilson, the landscape of reaction, Tate Publishing, London, 1982, pp.172-74, no. 52, no. 52, NJ18 W72 S65 + (YCBA)David Stacey, [ Exhibition Reviews ] And another view of the Richard Wilson exhibition ..., British Art Journal, vol. 15, Autumn 2014, p. 122, N6761 B74 OVERSIZE (YCBA)The Art of Paul Sandby, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, 1985, p. 21, no. 15, NJ18 Sa56 R62 (YCBA)Christopher White, English landscape, 1630-1850 : drawings, prints & books from the Paul Mellon Collection, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1977, p. 13, no. 18, pl. LV, NC228 W45 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, pp. 119-20, no. 99, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)