Richard Wilson, 1713/4–1782, British, active in Italy (1750–56)
Title:
Castell Dinas Brân, Wales
Date:
ca. 1771
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite and black chalk on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper mounted on thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Mount: 13 × 19 5/8 inches (33 × 49.9 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on verso, in graphite,center: "Paul Sandby mounted this Drawing of Wilson's | for me, December 1789 BB/"; in brown ink, center: "Wilson"; lower left: "Marianne Ford"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Castell Dinas Brân | Wales | Dee | Denbighshire | Cymru | Llangollen | United Kingdom
Currently On View:
Not on view
Publications:
Martin Postle, Richard Wilson and the transformation of European landscape painting, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2014, p. 266, NJ18.W72 R53 2014 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Ron Radford, Island to empire : 300 years of British art, 1550-1850 : paintings, watercolours, drawings, sculptures from the collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2005, pp. 144, 146, N3913.5 .R34 2005 (LC)+ Oversize (YCBA)