Richard Wilson, 1713/4–1782, British, active in Italy (1750–56)
Title:
View of the Wilderness in St. James's Park
Date:
between 1770 and 1775
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
17 x 21 inches (43.2 x 53.3 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1976.7.176
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
people | gardens | stream | park (grounds) | fence | landscape | walking | boy
Associated Places:
City of Westminster | England | United Kingdom | Greater London | London | St. James's Park
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Gentle, Rural and Sublime - English Landscape Paintings and Watercolors, 1750-1850 (Denver Art Museum, 1993-12-11 - 1994-02-06)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)
Publications:
Katharine Baetjer, Glorious nature, British landscape painting, 1750-1850 , Zwemmer publisher, London, 1993, pp. 102-103, no. 8, ND1354.4 B34 1993 (YCBA)Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 254, 255, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)Martin Postle, Richard Wilson and the transformation of European landscape painting, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2014, p. 270, NJ18.W72 R53 2014 OVERSIZE (YCBA)David H. Solkin, Richard Wilson, the landscape of reaction, Tate Publishing, London, 1982, pp 246-47, no. 142, no. 142, 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. P182, http://www.richardwilsononline.ac.uk/index.php?WINID=1582051040261