Richard Wilson, 1713/4–1782, British, active in Italy (1750–56)
Title:
A Summer Evening (Caernarfon Castle)
Date:
between 1764 and 1765
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
24 3/4 x 45 3/4 inches (62.9 x 116.2 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.688
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
night | evening | river | dusk | boats | fishing | architectural subject | landscape | fishermen | hill | castle | summer | stone | bay (body of water) | rowboats | fence
Associated Places:
United Kingdom | Gwynedd | Cymru | Caernarfonshire and Merionethshire | Wales | Caernarfon | Seiont | Caernarfon Castle
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Canaletto to Constable: Paintings of Town and Country from the Yale Center for British Art (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 1998-02-08 - 1998-04-26)British Landscape Exhibition (Japan) (Isetan Museum of Art, 1992-09-17 - 1992-10-20)British Landscape Exhibition (Japan) (Daimaru Museum of Art, 1993-03-10 - 1993-03-29)British Landscape Exhibition (Japan) (Ohita Prefectural Art Hall, 1992-10-24 - 1992-11-15)British Landscape Exhibition (Japan) (Koriyama City Museum of Art, 1992-11-21 - 1993-01-17)British Landscape Exhibition (Japan) (Hiroshima Museum of Art, 1993-01-23 - 1993-03-07)British Landscape Exhibition (Japan) (Mie Prefectural Art Museum, 1993-04-10 - 1993-05-09)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)Romance and Reality (Wildenstein) (Wildenstein & Company, Inc., 1978-09-22 - 1978-12-07)
Publications:
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 252, 253, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)Robert Michael Neuman, Baroque and Rococo art and architecture, Pearson, Boston, 2013, p. 391, fig. 14.13, N6415.B3 N48 2013 (YCBA)Martin Postle, Richard Wilson and the transformation of European landscape painting, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2014, p. 196, NJ18.W72 R53 2014 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Elio Schenini, On the Paths of Enlightenment: The Myth of India in Western Culture, 1808-2017, Skira editore, Milano, Italy, p. 86, cat. 33, N7305 .O58 2017 (LC) (YCBA)David H. Solkin, Richard Wilson, the landscape of reaction, Tate Publishing, London, 1982, p. 233, no. 115, no. 115, 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. P12B, http://www.richardwilsononline.ac.uk/index.php?WINID=1582051040261