Richard Wilson

(Wales 1714–1782)

Title

St Peters and the Vatican from the Janiculum, Rome

Year

1757

Media category

Painting

Materials used

oil on canvas

Dimensions

70.5 x 132.0cm stretcher; 94.0 x 155.0 x 10.0 frame

Signature & date

Signed l.l., black paint "RW" [in monogram]. Not dated.

Credit

Purchased 1970

Accession number

25.1971

Location

15th–19th c European art

Provenance (7)

Agnew's, London (England, estab. 1817), 09 Dec 1969-21 Jul 1970, London/England, Purchased by the AGNSW from Agnew's 1970

Leggatt Bros., London (England), pre 09 Dec 1969, London/England, Purchased by Agnew's.

F. Ward, Loan to National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington DC

American Art Association (United States of America), United States of America

Sulley and Co., London (England), London/England

Hussey family

Sir William Young (England), England, for whom the picture was painted

Bibliography (7)

'Richard Wilson in Rome' by Brinsley Ford, The Burlington Magazine 1952, 1952, 312.

W.G. Constable (Author), Richard Wilson, 1953, 220, 164. fig no. IIIa

Editor Unknown (Editor), Art Gallery of New South Wales picturebook, Domain, 1972, 14 (colour illus.).

Edmund Capon (England; Australia, b.1940) (Editor), Jan Meek (Australia) (Editor), Portrait of a Gallery, Sydney, 1984, 22 (colour illus.).

Renée Free (Australia) (Author), Art Gallery of New South Wales catalogue of British paintings, Sydney, 1987, 214 (illus.).

Annabel Davie (Editor), Art Gallery of New South Wales Handbook, Domain, 1988, 38.

Peter Tomory (United Kingdom) (Author), Robert Gaston (Author), European Paintings before 1800 in Australian and New Zealand public collections, Sydney, 1989, 52 (illus.). cat.no. 142

Exhibition history (2)