A View in Italy with Mountains in the Distance, c. 1754

Not on View

Medium

chalk and stumping, heightened with white gouache on buff paper

Dimensions

sheet: 27.7 × 42.7 cm (10 7/8 × 16 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Donald Stone in honor of Guy Peppiatt

Accession Number

2022.40.47

Artists / Makers

Richard Wilson (artist) British, 1713/1714 - 1782

Image Use

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Provenance

Dr. Thomas Monro [1759-1833]; (his sale, Christie's, London, 24 March 1804); purchased by Edward Kershaw; George Lake; (Thomas Agnew & Sons Ltd., until 1989, inv. no. CM 1051); private collection until 2017; (Guy Peppiatt Fine Arts, London); purchased 2018 by Donald Stone [1942 - 2020] New York, 2018; bequest to NGA, 2021.

Associated Names

Stone, Donald

Exhibition History

1989: Agnew's 116th Exhibition of Watercolours and Drawings. Thos. Agnew & Sons Ltd, London, 1989, no. 17.

2023: Drawing in Britain, 1700 - 1900: New Additions to the Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2023.