Richard Wilson, 1713/4–1782, British, active in Italy (1750–56)
Title:
Lago d'Agnano with the Grotta del Cane
Date:
between 1770 and 1775
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
17 1/2 × 21 inches (44.5 × 53.3 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.683
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
lake | town | volcano | water | grotto | figures | trees | landscape | clouds | shore (landform) | buildings
Associated Places:
Italy | Napoli | Campania | Agnano, Lago di
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Richard Wilson - The Landscape of Reaction (Tate Britain, 1982-11-03 - 1983-01-02)Richard Wilson - The Landscape of Reaction (National Museum Wales, 1983-01-29 - 1983-03-20)Richard Wilson - The Landscape of Reaction (Yale Center for British Art, 1983-04-20 - 1983-06-19)Classic Ground - British Artists and the Landscape of Italy, 1740-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-07-29 - 1981-09-20)
Publications:
Duncan Bull, Classic ground : British artists and the landscape of Italy, 1740-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1981, pp. 24, 33, no. 26, ND1354.4 B85 (YCBA)W. G. Constable, Richard Wilson, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1953, p. 191, pl. 63b, NJ18 W72 C55 (YCBA)Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 254-255, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , 1,2, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, p. 44 (v.1), no. 16, pl. 211, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA)David H. Solkin, Richard Wilson, the landscape of reaction, Tate Publishing, London, 1982, p. 245, no. 140, no. 140, NJ18 W72 S65 + (YCBA)Spencer-Longhurst, Paul, with Kate Lowry and David Solkin, Richard Wilson Online : A Digital Catalogue Raisonne, , The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London, 2014, no. P48A, http://www.richardwilsononline.ac.uk/index.php?WINID=1582051040261