Artist
Richard Wilson Welsh, 1713/14–1782, active England
CultureWelsh
Titles
- Villa Borghesi (The Villa Borghese, Rome)
Date1754
Place depictedRome, Italy
MediumBlack chalk with white chalk on gray blue laid paper; laid down on the artist's original mount of laid paper with lilac wash laid paper border
DimensionsSheet: 11 1/8 × 16 5/8 in. (28.3 × 42.2 cm)
Mat: 14 × 19 1/2 in. (35.6 × 49.5 cm)
Mat: 14 × 19 1/2 in. (35.6 × 49.5 cm)
Credit LineThe Stuart Collection, museum purchase funded by Francita Stuart Koelsch Ulmer in honor of Jonathan Yarker and Scott Wilcox
Object number2019.288
Not on view
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Prints and DrawingsObject Type
(1) Derek Lockett (d 1993) of Clonterbrook House, Cheshire, was a post-war collector of English watercolors.
Exhibition History"Richard Wilson and His Circle," City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom, November 17, 1948–January 9, 1949; Tate Gallery, London.
"British Artists in Europe," Whitworth Art Gallery at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom, January 11–February 17, 1973.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
On Mount, Recto: Initialed and dated in black ink, bottom left corner: R.W.f. Romae 1754.
On Mount, Recto: Inscribed in brown ink on a white laid paper label, bottom center: Villa / Borghesi.
On Mount, Recto: Numbered in black chalk, bottom right corner: No. 2
On Mount, Recto: Inscribed in brown ink on a white laid paper label, bottom center: Villa / Borghesi.
On Mount, Recto: Numbered in black chalk, bottom right corner: No. 2
Watermark, center: [fleur-de-lis encircled in an oval] (Reference Haewood #1609 / Pl. 220 / Bologna 1620 or after)
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