Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The Villa Borghese, Rome
- Pencil, black and white chalk
- 11 × 16 ½ inches · 280 × 420 mm
- Drawn in 1754
Signed on the mount: R.W.f. Romae 1754/ Villa Borghesi No 2
Numbered on reverse of mount 52, laid down on original lilac wash mount
Collections
- Commissioned by William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth (1731-1801);
- William Legge, 7th Earl of Dartmouth (1881-1958), by descent at Patshull House, Wolverhampton, to 1954;
- Dartmouth sale, Christie’s London, 29 January 1954, lot. 4;
- Thomas Agnew & Sons Ltd.;
- Derek Lockett, acquired from the above;
- Lockett sale, Sotheby’s London, 15 March 1990, lot.66;
- Professor Ian Craft, acquired at the above sale;
- Craft sale, Sotheby’s London, 14 July 2010, lot.57;
- Private collection, acquired at the above sale to 2018
Exhibitions
- Birmingham, Museum and Art Gallery, Richard Wilson and His Circle, 1948, no. 71;
- London, Tate Gallery, Richard Wilson and His Circle, 1949, no. 70.
Literature
- Joseph Farington, ed. James Greig, The Farington Diary, vol. III, London, 1924;
- Brinsley Ford, “The Dartmouth Collection of Drawings by Richard Wilson”, The Burlington Magazine, vol. 90, no. 549, (December 1948), p. 345;
- Brinsley Ford, The Drawings of Richard Wilson, London, 1951, p. 59, no. 51, repr. pl. 51.
- Joseph Farington, ed K.Garlick and A Macintyre, The Diary of Joseph Farington, vol. IV,New Haven and London, 1979, p. 1518.