Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Richard Wilson, 1713/4–1782, British, active in Italy (1750–56)
Title:
Cicero's Villa and the Gulf of Pozzuoli
Date:
1773 to 1780
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
17 × 21 1/4 inches (43.2 × 54 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.685
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
Italian | path | figures | sea | seascape | mountains | architecture | architectural subject | hills | landscape | arches | dwelling | villa | buildings | cliffs | gulf
Associated Places:
Italy | Pozzuoli, Golfo di | Campania | Napoli | Baiae
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Nobleness and Grandeur - Forging Historical Landscape in Britain, 1760 - 1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2005-01-27 - 2005-04-24)

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, p. 40, no. 42, ND1354.4 B85 (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)

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. P186, http://www.richardwilsononline.ac.uk/index.php?WINID=1582051040261
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1145