Richard Wilson, 1713/4–1782, British, active in Italy (1750–56)
Title:
Kew Gardens: The Pagoda and Bridge
Date:
1762
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
18 3/4 x 28 3/4 inches (47.6 x 73 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Label on verso, upper left: "Painting in England, 1700-1850 | [...]"; upper left, handwritten: "Box | 89"; upper left: "Musem [...] Rotterdam | Exp. | English Landscape | Coll. Mrs. D Hart | Artiste Richard Wilson | Titre Kew Gardens: the Pagoda and Bridge"; center left: "Pitt & Scott Ltd. | London | Item No. 04248 | A/N No. [handwritten] 4185"; center left: "Leicester Museums & Art Gallery | Exhibition A Hundred Years of British Landscape Painting | (1750-1850) | Date 9 Oct. - 4 Nov. 1956 | Catalogue No. 3 | Title of Picture The Pagoda at Kew | Artist Richard Wilson | Name of Owner Mrs. Geoffrey Hart"; lower left: "N.B.--This Label to be affixed to the back of the frame (not the canvas) of the Picture | Royal Academy of Arts | Winter Exhibition, 19[59?]-96 | Artist Richard Wilson | Title The Pagoda at Kew Ser. No. | 468 | Name and | Address of | Owner [...] | {Please correct any particulars not properly [...]}"; lower center: "[...]6671--B1--K | City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery | [handwritten] Wilson | Pagoda at Kew | Lent [...] Chancell[...]"; upper center: "British Council--Fine Arts Department | Owner | Name Mrs. Hart | Address 9 Hyde Park Gardens, London W. 2 | Work | Title Kew Gardens: The Pagoda & Bridge 1761-2 | Artist Richard Wilson | Exhibition | English Landscape Painting, | Boymans Museum, Rotterdam, 1955. | no. | 64"; lower right: "K 531003 | [logo] | Allied Van Lines | 63 | PAT.No. 3,489,433"; lower right: "62/11/21/10"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Greater London | Richmond upon Thames | Kew | United Kingdom | Thames | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew | England
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Enlightened Princesses - Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the Shaping of the Modern World (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-02-02 - 2017-04-30)Richard Wilson and the Transformation of European Landscape Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-03-06 - 2014-06-01)Mrs Delany & Her Circle (Yale Center for British Art, 2009-09-24 - 2010-01-03)Nobleness and Grandeur - Forging Historical Landscape in Britain, 1760 - 1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2005-01-27 - 2005-04-24)Sir William Chambers - Architect to George III (Nationalmuseum, 1997-01 - 1997-04-20)Sir William Chambers - Architect to George III (The Courtauld Gallery, 1996-10-10 - 1997-01-01)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)The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18)Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20)
Publications:
John Baskett, Painting in England: 1700-1850: the Collection of English paintings formed by Mr and Mrs Paul Mellon : on Exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, until August 18th, , Connoisseur, Vol. 153, London, June 1963, p. 194, N1 C75 + (YCBA)Adrian Bury, Richard Wilson, R. A., The grand classic , F. Lewis, Publishers, Limited, London, 1947, pp. 25-6, NJ18 W72 B8 (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, pp. 14-15, no. 10, 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. 13, no. 11, V 2449 (YCBA)William Chambers, Designs of Chinese buildings, furniture, dresses, machines, and utensils. Engraved ... from the originals drawn in China by Mr. Chambers ... To which is annexed, a description of their temples, houses, gardens, &c., London, p. 15, Folio 73 757CChristie's sale catalogue : Small collection of choice pictures, formed by Colin A. Mackenzie, Esq., deceased . . . : 6 March 1858, Christie's, March 6, 1858, p. 6, lot 34, Art Sales Catalogues OnlineChristie's sale catalogue : The beautiful cabinet of Dutch and English pictures of Richard Winstanley, Esq., deceased : 16 March 1850, Christie's, March 16, 1850, p. 11, lot 58, Art Sales Catalogues OnlineChristie's sale catalogue : The highly important collection of fine pictures and drawings of Louis Huth, Esq., deceased : 20 May 1905, Christie's, May 20, 1905, p. 28, lot 136, Fiche B51 (YCBA)Christie's sale catalogue : The renowned collection of ancient and modern pictures and water-colour drawings, of that well-known patron of art, Joseph Gillott, Esq., deceased : 26 April 1872, Christie's, April 26, 1972, p. 35, lot 236, Art Sales Catalogues OnlineW. G. Constable, Richard Wilson, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1953, pp. 179-180, pl. 41b, NJ18 W72 C55 (YCBA)Douglas Cooper, Richard Wilson's Views of Kew, Burlington Magazine, vol. XC, London, December 1948, p. 346, N1 +B87 90 (YCBA)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)Martina Droth, Britain in the world: Highlights from the Yale Center for British Art in honor of Amy Meyers, Yale University Press, New Haven, London, p. 52, N6761 .Y33 2019 (LC) (YCBA)Catherine M. Gordon, British paintings Hogarth to Turner, Frederick Warne, London, 1981, p. 76, ND466 G67 (YCBA)John Harris, Sir William Chambers : Architect to George III, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1996, pp. 67, 223, no. 67, fig. 97, NJ18 .C37 S57 1996 (YCBA)Olivia Horsfall Turner, Nobleness & grandeur : forging historical landscape in Britain 1760-1850, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2005, pp. 15, 21, no. 37, V 1420 (YCBA)Mark Laird, A natural history of English gardening, 1650-1800, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, 2015, pp. 254, 255, pl. 228, SB457.6 .L35 2015 OVERSIZE (YCBA)John Macock, An embassy from the East-India Company of the United provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham, emperour of China, London, p. 38, DS708 N542+ (BEINECKE)John Macock, An embassy from the East-India Company of the United provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham, emperour of China, London, p. 38, 54139566Joanna Marschner, Enlightened Princesses : Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the Shaping of the Modern World, Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn, 2017, p. 345, fig. 19.14, NX543 +.E55 2017 Oversize (YCBA)Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , 1,2, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, p. 47 (v.1), no. 20, pl. 209, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA)Painting in England 1700-1850 from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, The Royal Academy of Arts Winter Exhibition 1964-65., , Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK, 1964, pp. 15-6 (v.1), no. 55, ND466 R68 1964/65 (YCBA)Plans, elevations, sections, and perspective views of the gardens and buildings at Kew, in Surry, J. Haberkorn, London, p. 2, 6, Folio A 2017 9 Copy 1 (YCBA)J. H. Plumb, The pursuit of happiness : a view of life in Georgian England : an exhibition selected from the Paul Mellon collection, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1977, pp. 55, 115, no. 113, N6766 Y34 1977 (YCBA)Martin Postle, Richard Wilson and the transformation of European landscape painting, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2014, pp. 262, 263, Cat. No. 77, NJ18.W72 R53 2014 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Albert Forbes Sieveking, Sir William Temple upon the gardens of Epicurus, with other XVIIth century garden essays, p. 2, Uzb81 908S (LSF)Stacey Sloboda, Chinoiserie : commerce and critical ornament in eighteenth-century Britain, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2014, pp. 185-86, fig. 4.21, NK1443 S56 2014 (YCBA)David H. Solkin, Richard Wilson, the landscape of reaction, Tate Publishing, London, 1982, pp. 19, 210-11, no. 98, no. 98, NJ18 W72 S65 + (YCBA)Sotheby's sale catalogue : Modern paintings and drawings : 20 February 1952, Sotheby's, February 20, 1952, p. 11, lot 81, Film B12 (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. P109, http://www.richardwilsononline.ac.uk/index.php?WINID=1582051040261The Spectator ..., Spectator, no. 414, S. Buckley and J. Tonson, London, 25 Jun 1712, p. 550, 111 Sp32 (SML)Yale University Art Gallery, Painting in England, 1700-1850, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon : [exhibition at] Yale University Art Gallery, April 15-June 20, 1965, , vol. 1, W. Clowes and sons, New Haven, 1965, pp. 60-1 (v.1), no. 224, ND466 Y35 (YCBA)