Description
Creator
Miss Maingey (active 1791) Richard Wilson (1713/14 - 1782)
Title(s)
  • In the Villa Adriana
Date
1790/08/14
Medium
Pencil, pen and grey and brown inks, watercolour, with grey wash border
Dimensions
  • image height 266mm,
  • image width 220mm
Part of
  • Miss Maingey: An Album of Landscape Copies
Object Type
Watercolour

Collection
Catalogue Number
FT851
Description Sources
Examination

Provenance

Untraced until acquired by Iolo Aneurin Williams (1890–1962) by 1952, and sold by a member of his family at Sotheby’s on 31 March 1999, lot 37, for £1,100 to the present owner within a sketchbook containing FT843 to FT854.

Associated People & Organisations

Private Collection, 31 March 1999, GBP 1100
Sotheby's, London, London, 31 March 1999, lot 37
Iolo Anuerin Williams (1890 - 1962), 1952
Bibliography
Iolo Aneurin Williams, Early English Watercolours, and some cognate drawings by artists not later than 1785, Connoisseur: London, 1952, p. 90

Comment

This drawing, which appears on folio 9 (recto) of the sketchbook, is a copy of Villa Adriana, engraved by Michael Rooker after Richard Wilson. Unlike in other drawings, the pen line is very subdued and the wash has a more painterly quality. Possibly Miss Maingey’s immediate source was a watercolour Towne had made from the engraving, as was the case in another copy made after Wilson (FT860). The dark lines outlining the two central figures may well be Towne’s corrections.

by Richard Stephens

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