The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston - The Stuart Collection, museum purchase funded by Francita Stuart Koelsch Ulmer in honor of the Houston Friends of Art that was founded in 1926 to begin the formation of a permanent collection of art for the museum.
Monte Della Giustizia, Villa Montalto - Negroni, Rome
- Black and white chalk on blue-grey paper
- 8 ¾ × 7 ⅝ inches · 222 × 194 mm
- Inscribed 'Negroni' (lower centre)
Inscribed: ‘Richard Ford’ on verso
Drawn c.1752
Collections
- William Lock of Norbury (1732-1810), acquired from the artist;
- Probably Lock sale, 1821;
- Richard Ford (1796-1858), acquired at the above sale;
- Captain Richard Ford (1860-1950), by descent;
- Ford sale, Christie Manson & Woods, 14 June 1929;
- Colnaghi, London, November 1973;
- Professor Eric Stanley;
- Christie’s, London, 2 July 2019, lot.200
Exhibitions
- London, P & D Colnaghi & Co, Exhibition of British Drawings, Watercolours and Paintings, 1973, no.82.
Literature
- Brinsley Ford, The Drawings of Richard Wilson, London, 1951, p.55. under cat. no.27;
- Paul Spencer-Longhurst, Richard Wilson Online Catalogue Raisonné, cat. no. D404.