Thomas Jones, 1742–1803, British, active in Italy (1776–83)
Title:
Lake Albano
Date:
1777
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
47 1/8 x 65 1/4 inches (119.7 x 165.7 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated, lower right: "Tho Jones. | MDCCLXVII | Roma" [1777]
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1973.1.30
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
lake | Italian | sunset | landscape | horses (animals) | people | sky | Grand Tour
Associated Places:
Saint Peter's Basilica | Rome | Castel Gandolfo | Albano, Lago | Italy | Lazio
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Thomas Jones (1742-1803) (National Museum Wales, 2003-05-21 - 2003-08-10)Thomas Jones (1742-1803) (Whitworth Art Gallery, 2003-08-22 - 2003-10-26)Thomas Jones (1742-1803) (The National Gallery, London, 2003-11-12 - 2004-01-15)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. 4, 11, 28-30, no. 14, pl. I, 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. 130, 131, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)Luke Herrmann, [ Exhibition Reviews ] Richard Wilson and the Transformation of European Landscape Painting, YCBA, New Haven, 6 March - 1 June National Museum Wales / Amueddfa Cymru, Cardiff 5 July - 26 October , British Art Journal, Vol. 15, Autumn 2014, p. 121, N6761 B74 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Memoirs of Thomas Jones, Volume of the Walpole Society, Vol. XXXII, 1946-1948, pp. 62-63, 83.., N12 W35 A1 + (YCBA)The National Gallery, London, The British school, National Gallery Publications, London, 1998, pp. 192-3, ND461 L62 1998 (YCBA)Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 3, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Martin Postle, Richard Wilson and the transformation of European landscape painting, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2014, pp.84, 85, 308-09, Cat. No. 132, fig. 74, NJ18.W72 R53 2014 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Greg Smith, Thomas Jones (1742-1803) : an artist rediscovered, , Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2003, pp. 15, 55, 65,166-67, 168, 182, 184, no. 56, pl. no. 56, NJ18 J714 T56 2003 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Thos. Agnew and Sons Ltd., English life and landscape, an exhibition of English pictures, 1730-1870, 8th March-8th April 1971. , [London, 1971, no. 40, ND1314.4 A35 + (YCBA)Richard Veasey, Thomas Jones Pencerrig : Artist - Traveller - Country Squire, Talybont, Ceredigion, 2017, NJ18 J714 V43 2017 (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
Following in the footsteps of his teacher Richard Wilson, Thomas Jones traveled to Italy in 1776, remaining there until 1783. Jones first visited Lake Albano in December 1776, finding the region “without doubt the most pleasing in the whole world.” Albano is a volcanic lake that sits below Castel Gandolfo, once believed to be the birthplace of Romulus and Remus, founders of Rome. Eighteenth-century popes used the hilltop palace there, which Jones shows overlooking the lake, as an occasional retreat from Rome itself, which is just visible in the distance and dominated by the distinctive dome of St. Peter’s Basilica. This painting, the first Jones completed after his arrival in Italy, was sold to the influential art patron Frederick Augustus Hervey, Lord Bishop of Derry, who would die in Albano in 1803.\n\n Gallery label for installation of ycba collection, 2016