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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2022.370
People
Richard Wilson, British (Penegoes, Wales 1714 - 1782 Colommenoy, Wales)
Title
The Falls of the Liri at Isola di Sora, Italy
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1755
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/377954

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk, stumped, on off-white laid paper
Dimensions
26.9 × 40.6 cm (10 9/16 × 16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: mount, lower center, graphite: Waterfall
  • inscription: mount, lower right, graphite: A.22126
  • inscription: between layers: plain to border

    (Photo on Video Spectral Comparator in paper lab)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
William Lock of Norbury (1767-1847). Iolo Williams (1890-1962). Edward Croft-Murray (1907-1980). Sale [Sotheby's, London, July 10, 1980, lot 137]. Sale [Woolley & Wallis, Salisbury, Aug. 11, 2012]. [Guy Peppiatt Fine Art, London], sold; to Harvard Art Museums, 2022

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Donald Outerbridge & Robert M. Light Commemorative Drawing Purchase Fund
Accession Year
2022
Object Number
2022.370
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Paul Spencer-Longhurst, Kate Lowry, and David Solkin, Richard Wilson Online: A Digital Catalogue Raisonné, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, reference no. D337A, repr. [http://www.richardwilsononline.ac.uk/index.php?a=QuickSearch&qsv=d337a&WINID=1662062605110; accessed 9-1-22]
  • Brinsley Ford, The Drawings of Richard Wilson, Faber and Faber (London, 1951), p. 33
  • William G. Constable, Richard Wilson, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1953), p. 211, under pl. 98b
  • British Drawings and Watercolours, auct. cat., Guy Peppiatt Fine Art (London, 2022), no. 5, repr.

Verification Level

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