Circle of Richard Wilson, R.A. (1714-1782)

细节

Circle of Richard Wilson, R.A. (1714-1782)

The Bridge at Rimini

24 x 30in. (61.2 x 76.3cm.)

来源

The National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution

出版

U.S. National Museum Report, 1919, pp. 23-24, 147
The American Magazine of Art, XI, no. 10, August, 1920, p. 354 (as Wilson) and December, 1920 (as Wilson)
George B. Rose, "The Ralph Cross Johnson Collection in National Gallery of Art", Art and Archaeology, X, 3, September, 1920, p. 106, illus. p. 97 (as Wilson)
Smithsonian Institute Report, 1920, pp. 679-690, illus. plate XIX
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Catalogue, 1926, p. 70 (as Wilson)
The Washington Star, August 7, 1938
W.G. Constable, Richard Wilson, 1953, p. 212, under plate 99a, version (4) (as Wilson)

拍品专文

Wilson painted several versions of the Ponte d'Augusto with the hills of San Marino in the distance. The prime version is in the St. Quintin Collection at Scampston Hall and according to the account book there, was painted before 1759 together with the pendant 'Torre delle Grotte'. W.G. Constable, Richard Wilson, 1953, under no. 99a, lists several other versions, all of varying sizes and with differences in the details, at Dunedin, the Fitzwilliam, the Ashmolean and the Lady Lever Art Gallery. Wilson exhibited 'The Bridge at Rimini, with the Republic of San Marino' and its companion 'Temple of Citumnus' at the Society of Artists in 1761, and the subject was engraved by Farington for the Twelve Original Views in Italy, published by Boydell in 1776, although this differs in some details. Drawings of the bridge are in the Oppé and Ford Collections, and another was in the William Esdaile Sale of Christie's in 1838.

The Ponte d'Augusto, built by the Emperor, crosses the River Marecchia, near the triumphal arch also dedicated to him.