Cicero's Villa, Italy (On the Strada Nomentana - III)
after Richard Wilson (Penegoes 1714 - Mold 1782)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1780 - 1899
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
362 x 457 mm (14 1/4 x 18 in)
Place of origin
Pompeii
Order this imageCollection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 515733
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Cicero's Villa, Italy (On the Strada Nomentana - III), after Richard Wilson, RA (Penegoes 1714 – Mold 1782). Lakeside landscape with a ruined classical, domed tower-like structure on the right, mountainous landscape in the middle distance and in the foreground centre, a youth leading a horse, travelling to the right and on the right, before below the ruin a seated woman, turned to the left. The original painting with this title is in Manchester City Art Gallery, having been bought from Thomas Agnew & Sons in 1897.
Provenance
Bequeathed to the National Trust by Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966) with the house and the rest of the contents.
Credit line
Anglesey Abbey, The Fairhaven Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
after Richard Wilson (Penegoes 1714 - Mold 1782), artist
References
Constable 1953 W. G. Constable, Richard Wilson, London, 1953, p.197, pl.75a