Richard Wilson
Monte Della Giustizia, Villa Montalto - Negroni, Rome

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Artist Richard Wilson Welsh, 1713/14–1782, active England

CultureWelsh

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Monte Della Giustizia, Villa Montalto - Negroni, Rome

Datec. 1752

MediumBlack chalk, heightened with white chalk, white gouache, and gray wash on blue-gray laid paper

DimensionsImage/sheet: 8 9/16 × 7 1/2 in. (21.7 × 19 cm)
Frame (outer): 18 9/16 × 17 1/8 × 1 7/16 in. (47.2 × 43.5 × 3.6 cm)

Credit LineThe Stuart Collection, museum purchase funded by Francita Stuart Koelsch Ulmer in memory of Rosa Lum Allen, member of the Houston Friends of Art, founded in 1926 to establish a permanent collection of art for the Museum

Object number2021.290

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Department

Prints and Drawings

Object Type

DRAWINGS, PASTELS & WATERCOLORS

ProvenanceThe artist, c. 1752; William Lock of Norbury (1732-1810), acquired from the artist; London, Sotheby’s, Probably Lock sale, 3 May, 18211; Richard Ford (1796-1858), acquired at the aforementioned sale; Captain Richard Ford (1860-1950), by descent; [London, Christie Manson & Woods, Ford sale, 14 June 1929, lot ? ]; [London, P& D Colnaghi & Co., as of November 1973]; Professor Eric Gerald Stanley (1923-2018), Oxford; [London, Christie’s, Old Master and British Drawings and Watercolours Including Works from the Collection of Jean Bonna, 2 July 2019, lot 200]; [Lowell Libson and Jonny Yarker Ltd., London, 2020]; purchased by MFAH, 2021.

1 Richard Wilson made a journey from Venice to Rome in the company of William Lock of Norbury in 1751, and he obtained many drawings from Wilson during the tour.
Exhibition HistoryLondon, P & D Colnaghi & Co, Exhibition of British Drawings, Watercolours and Paintings

Brinsley Ford, The Drawings of Richard Wilson, London, 1951
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Inscription:
Recto: Inscribed in black chalk, lower center: Villa Negroni ["Villa" is very faint]
Verso: Inscribed in graphite, upper center: 389 [?]
Verso: Inscribed in graphite, lower left: Pencil drawing // by Wilson
Verso: Inscribed in faded brown ink, upper right: Richard Ford [cursive, underlined]
Verso: Inscribed in graphite, upper right: Villa Negroni [cursive]
Verso: Inscribed in graphite, lower right: E 601 Hxx // Landscape // 22 x 16 // cox

Recto: [none]
Verso: [inaccessible, but see label]

Catalogue raisonnéSpencer-Longhurst D404

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