Richard Wilson, 1713/4–1782, British, active in Italy (1750–56)
Title:
Temple of Minerva Medica, Rome
Date:
1754
Materials & Techniques:
Black chalk and white chalk on moderately thick, rough, blue laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 5/16 x 16 9/16 inches (28.7 x 42.1 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in brown ink, on sheet attached to mount, lower center: "T. of Minerva | Medica."; in black chalk, on mount, lower right: "No. 19"; in graphite, on back of mount, upper left: "7403"; on back of mount, upper right: "30"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.4654
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
figures | nymphaeum | buildings | wall | landscape | temple | architectural subject | fields | city | ruins | trees | Grand Tour
Associated Places:
Roma | Lazio | Italy | Rome | Temple of Minerva Medica
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Richard Wilson and the Transformation of European Landscape Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-03-06 - 2014-06-01)An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Royal Academy of Arts, 2007-10-20 - 2008-01-27)Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)English Landscape (Paul Mellon Collection) 1630-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-07-17)
Publications:
John Baskett, English drawings and watercolors, 1550-1850, in the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon , The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 1972, pp. 20-21, no. 25, NC228 B37+ (YCBA)John Baskett, Paul Mellon's Legacy: a Passion for British Art: Masterpieces from the Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, pp. 250-251, no. 20, pl. 20, N5220 M552 P38 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Duncan Bull, Classic ground : British artists and the landscape of Italy, 1740-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1981, pp. 4, 53, no. 73, ND1354.4 B85 (YCBA)Catalogue of an exhibition of pictures by Richard Wilson and his circle : organized by the City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, January, 1949, The Tate Gallery, London, , Tate Britain, London, 1949, p. 27, no. 87, NJ18 W72 T37 (YCBA)Catalogue of pictures by Richard Wilson and his circle, November 17-January 9 1948-9 , City Museum & Art Gallery Birmingham, Birmingham, 1948, p. 24, no. 88, V 2449 (YCBA)W. G. Constable, Richard Wilson, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1953, p. 206, no. 88b, NJ18 W72 C55 (YCBA)Sir Brinsley Ford, The Dartmouth Collection of Drawings by Richard Wilson, Burlington Magazine, vol. 90,no.549, December, 1948, p. 339, fig. 5, N1 B87 + (YCBA)Sir Brinsley Ford, The Drawings of Richard Wilson, Faber & Faber, London, 1951, pp. 59-60, no. 55, NJ18 W72 F6 1951 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 2, no. 20, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Martin Postle, Richard Wilson and the transformation of European landscape painting, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2014, pp. 64, 254, 255, Cat. No. 67, fig. 57, NJ18.W72 R53 2014 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Christopher White, English landscape, 1630-1850, drawings, prints & books from the Paul Mellon Collection , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1977, pp. 11-12, no. 16, pl. LIV, NC228 W45 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, pp. 119-20, no. 98, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)Windows on that world, essays on British art presented to Brian Allen , The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London, 2012, p. 70, N6766 .W56 2012 (YCBA)Mahonri Sharp Young, The Mellon Drawings at the Morgan, Apollo, vo. 95, no. 122, April, 1972, pp. 331, 332-33, fig. 3, N1 A54 + (YCBA) Another copy available in Vertical File - V 2330
Gallery Label:
The so-called Temple of Minerva Medica was one of the most famous and frequently reproduced monuments in eighteenth-century Rome. Situated close to the Porta Maggiore on agricultural land within the ancient Aurelian walls, the decagonal, domed structure was identified during the eighteenth century as a temple dedicated to Minerva the Doctor (it is more likely to have been a nymphaeum). Wilson’s sheet emphasizes the dome of the structure, which collapsed in 1828, with the facade and campanile of the church of Santa Bibiana beyond. Gallery label for Wilson in Wales (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-03-06 – 2014-6-1)