Richard Wilson, 1713/4–1782, British, active in Italy (1750–56)
Title:
Lago d'Agnano with Vesuvius in the distance
Date:
between 1770 and 1775
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
17 1/2 x 20 3/4 inches (44.5 x 52.7 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.682
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
women | water | science | geology | smoke | lake | volcano | trees | mountains | fence | view | volcano | Italian | landscape
Associated Places:
Italy | Napoli | Vesuvius | Agnano, Lago di
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Hogarth, Reynolds, Turner: British Painting and the Rise of Modernity (Fondazione Roma Museo - Palazzo Sciarra, 2014-04-14 - 2014-07-20)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)Classic Ground - British Artists and the Landscape of Italy, 1740-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-07-29 - 1981-09-20)Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20)
Publications:
Carolina Brook, Hogarth Reynolds Turner : British painting and the rise of modernity, Skira editore, Rome, 2014, pp. 228, 286-87, cat. no. 79, fig. 79, ND466 .H65 2014 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Duncan Bull, Classic ground : British artists and the landscape of Italy, 1740-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1981, p. 23, no. 2, ND1354.4 B85 (YCBA)W. G. Constable, Richard Wilson, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1953, p. 190, NJ18 W72 C55 (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)Catherine M. Gordon, British paintings Hogarth to Turner, Frederick Warne, London, 1981, p. 76, ND466 .G67 (YCBA)Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , , Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, p. 45 (v.1), no. 18, pl. 210, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA)Painting in England 1700-1850 from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, The Royal Academy of Arts Winter Exhibition 1964-65., , Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK, 1964, pp. 17 (v.1), 71 (v. 2), no. 56, pl. 71, N5220.M45 R69 1964 (YCBA)David H. Solkin, Richard Wilson, the landscape of reaction, Tate Publishing, London, 1982, p. 245, no. 141, no. 141, 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. P47A, http://www.richardwilsononline.ac.uk/index.php?WINID=1582051040261Yale University Art Gallery, Painting in England, 1700-1850, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon : [exhibition at] Yale University Art Gallery, April 15-June 20, 1965, , vol. 1, W. Clowes and sons, New Haven, 1965, p. 61 (v.1), no. 225, pl. 71, ND466 Y35 (YCBA)