FDA-D.544-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-D.544-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
An Italianate Landscape by the Sea
Whiteley
Whiteley
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
collection
collection
Description
Drawn sketch of a ruined capriccio by the sea
Comments
'Surely a 'vedute ideale' inspired by the coast near Naples at Possillipo. Such worked were produced by artist who visited Rome and Naples in the middle of the eighteenth century. Both Richard WIlson and Alexander Cozens produced their versions, and influenced their pupils.
No authentic monochrome was drawings are attributed to Richard Wilson, so that the attribution of this drawing must be challenged."
[See hand-typed catalogue in Mart Whiteley file]
No authentic monochrome was drawings are attributed to Richard Wilson, so that the attribution of this drawing must be challenged."
[See hand-typed catalogue in Mart Whiteley file]
Other number
MFW 43
Description
Dimensions
height (actual size): 182mm
width (actual size): 228mm
width (actual size): 228mm
Inscription
Stamped, lower right: 'J.D.E'
Numbered: 'K3/2506'
Numbered: 'K3/2506'
Materials & techniques note
Black chalk and grey wash on wire wove paper
Production
Date
18th century
History and association
Object history note
Provenance: Collection of printmaker and draughtsman John Deffett Francis (1815-1901);; sold through Spink & Son (K3/2506) on 4 Spetember 1964;; collection of Martin Whiteley; by whom bequeathed to Eton College
Previous ownership
