On Hounslow Heath
| On Hounslow Heath | |
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| Artist | Richard Wilson |
| Year | c.1770 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, landscape painting |
| Dimensions | 42.5 cm × 52.7 cm (16.7 in × 20.7 in) |
| Location | Tate Britain, London |
On Hounslow Heath is a 1770 landscape painting by the Welsh artist Richard Wilson.[1] [2] It depicts a view of Hounslow Heath, then located some miles to the west of London. The uncultivated landscape of the heath attracted Wilson, who returned to it as a subject several times in his work. His depiction of it is naturalistic, something of a new style for him.[3] It emphasises the largely empty landscape, broken only by the River Crane flooding its banks in the foreground and a windmill in the distance.[4]
It was commissioned by the bookseller Thomas Davies. It is now in the collection of the Tate Britain in Pimlico, having been acquired in 1929.[5] An engraved print was later produced based on the picture by Thomas Hastings.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ Bury p.67
- ^ Fussell p.22
- ^ Waites p.56
- ^ Waites p.57
- ^ https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/wilson-on-hounslow-heath-n04458
- ^ https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:33833
Bibliography
[edit]- Bury, Adrian. Richard Wilson, R.A.: The Grand Classic. F. Lewis, 1947.
- Fussell, George Edwin . Landscape Painting and the Agricultural Revolution. Pindar Press, 1984.
- Solkin, David H. Richard Wilson: The Landscape of Reaction. Tate Gallery, 1982.
- Waites, Ian. Common Land in English Painting, 1700-1850. Boydell Press, 2012.
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