- Title:
- Temple of Minerva Medica, Rome
- Additional Title(s):
T. of Minerva Medica.
Temple of Minerva Medici, Rome- Date:
- 1754
- Materials & Techniques:
- Black chalk and white chalk on moderately thick, rough, blue laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 11 5/16 x 16 9/16 inches (28.7 x 42.1 cm), Mount: 13 7/8 x 19 1/2 inches (35.2 x 49.5 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in brown ink, on sheet attached to mount, lower center: "T. of Minerva | Medica."; in black chalk, on mount, lower right: "No. 19"; in graphite, on back of mount, upper left: "7403"; on back of mount, upper right: "30"
Signed and dated on mount in black chalk, lower left: "R. Wilson f. 1754"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.4654
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- architectural subject | buildings | city | fields | figures | Grand Tour | landscape | nymphaeum | ruins | temple | trees | wall
- Associated Places:
- Italy | Lazio | Roma | Rome | Temple of Minerva Medica
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:14277
- Export:
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- IIIF Manifest:
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Richard Wilson and the Transformation of European Landscape Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-03-06 - 2014-06-01) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Royal Academy of Arts, 2007-10-20 - 2008-01-27) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
English Landscape (Paul Mellon Collection) 1630-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-07-17) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
John Baskett, English drawings and watercolors, 1550-1850, in the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon , The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 1972, pp. 20-21, no. 25, NC228 B37+ (YCBA) [YCBA]
John Baskett, Paul Mellon's Legacy: a Passion for British Art: Masterpieces from the Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, pp. 250-251, no. 20, pl. 20, N5220 M552 P38 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
Duncan Bull, Classic ground : British artists and the landscape of Italy, 1740-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1981, pp. 4, 53, no. 73, ND1354.4 B85 (YCBA) [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, p. 27, no. 87, NJ18 W72 T37 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Catalogue of pictures by Richard Wilson and his circle, November 17-January 9 1948-9 , City Museum & Art Gallery Birmingham, Birmingham, 1948, p. 24, no. 88, V 2449 (YCBA) [YCBA]
W. G. Constable, Richard Wilson, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1953, p. 206, no. 88b, NJ18 W72 C55 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Sir Brinsley Ford, The Dartmouth Collection of Drawings by Richard Wilson, Burlington Magazine, vol. 90,no.549, December, 1948, p. 339, fig. 5, N1 B87 + (YCBA) [YCBA]
Sir Brinsley Ford, The Drawings of Richard Wilson, Faber & Faber, London, 1951, pp. 59-60, no. 55, NJ18 W72 F6 1951 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 2, no. 20, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
Martin Postle, Richard Wilson and the transformation of European landscape painting, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2014, pp. 64, 254, 255, no. 67, fig. 57, NJ18.W72 R53 2014 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
Christopher White, English landscape, 1630-1850 : drawings, prints & books from the Paul Mellon Collection, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1977, pp. 11-12, no. 16, pl. LIV, NC228 W45 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, pp. 119-20, no. 98, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Windows on that world, essays on British art presented to Brian Allen , The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London, 2012, p. 70, N6766 .W56 2012 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Mahonri Sharp Young, The Mellon Drawings at the Morgan, Apollo, vo. 95, April 1972, pp. 331, 332-333, fig. 3, N1 A54 + (YCBA) [YCBA]