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Richard Wilson

Banks of the Tiber, 1757

Description

Maker

  • Richard Wilson, 1713/14-1782, British

Title

Banks of the Tiber

Year

1757

Medium

Red and white chalk on laid paper

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • chalk

Dimensions

16.8 x 21.9 cm (6 5/8 x 8 5/8 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

signed and dated 1757

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Drawings and Watercolors

Credit

Anonymous gift

Object Number

2006.122.9

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Distant Climes

September 1, 2011 - June 3, 2012

Richard Wilson was one of the earliest British artists to spend an extended period in Rome, staying there for much of the 1750s. While his title for the drawing designates a general location, his broad, monochromatic technique makes the precise site on the Tiber riverbank difficult to identify, indicating the artist’s interest in the general over the specific. Wilson’s familiarity with the philosophy of the sublime, in which nature is awe-inspiring, grand, and ultimately unknowable, is evident in the effect of light created with white chalk, which mysteriously illuminates the small church atop the hill.

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