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

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Artist Richard Wilson (Welsh, 1713/14–1782, active England)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 (Mrs. Samuel Ezekiel Allen), member of the Houston Friends of Art that was founded in 1926 by Mrs. Edgar Odell Lovett to begin the formation of a permanent collection of art for the Museum

Object number2021.290

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Department

Prints and Drawings

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The Stuart Collection

Object Type

DRAWINGS, PASTELS & WATERCOLORS

ProvenanceWilliam Lock of Norbury (1732–1810), acquired from the artist; probably Lock sale, Sotheby’s, London, A Catalogue of the Valuable Collection of Prints and Drawings of the later W. Lock, Esq. removed from his late Residence, Norbury Park, Surry, consisting of Prints . . . Capital Drawings . . . And a Numerous Assemblage of the Works of R. Wilson, R.A. . . ., May 3, 1821, part of lot 377 (as “Ditto, Villa Negroni, &c”); presumably purchased at the above sale, Richard Ford (1796–1858); by descent, Captain Richard Ford (1860–1950); Ford his sale, Christie’s, London, Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures by Richard Wilson, R.A. the Property of Captain Richard Ford…,14 June 14, 1929, lot 24; Sotheby’s, London, Fine Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Century English Drawings and Watercolours, April 5, 1973, lot 43; [Colnaghi, London, November 1973]; Professor Eric Stanley, Oxford (1923-2018); Christie’s, London, Old Master and British Drawings & Watercolours, July 2, 2019, lot 200; [Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker Ltd, London, 2019-2021]; purchased by MFAH, 2021.
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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