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Creator:
Richard Wilson, 1713/4–1782
Title:
Dover [1985, Cormack, YCBA Concise Catalogue]
Former Title(s):
View of Dover Castle [2014, Richard Wilson and the transformation of European landscape painting, exhibition catalogue]
Date:
between 1746 and 1747
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
17 x 21 1/2 inches (43.2 x 54.6 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1976.7.173
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Link to Frame:
B1976.7.173FR
Subject Terms:
beach | boats | buildings | city | cityscape | cliffs | clouds | fortress | houses | landscape | oceans | sea | shore (landform) | town
Associated Places:
Dover | Dover castle | Dover, Strait of | England | English Channel | Kent | United Kingdom
Access:
Not on view
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:382
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The site of Dover Castle has been significant since at least Roman times. Since its construction in the eleventh century, the structure has stood fast against invasions from France, even serving as an important military site during the Second World War. As the fortress located at the point closest to the Continent, its prominence in the British imagination is reflected in its nickname “the key of England.” Richard Wilson’s painting offers a view of Dover from afar that captures its elevated position in the surrounding landscape, overlooking the English Channel.

Gallery label for Art in Focus: The British Castle - A Symbol in Stone (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-04-07 - 2017-08-06)

Art in Focus : The British Castle - A Symbol in Stone (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-04-07 - 2017-08-06) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]

Gentle, Rural and Sublime - English Landscape Paintings and Watercolors, 1750-1850 (Denver Art Museum, 1993-12-11 - 1994-02-06) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Richard Wilson - The Landscape of Reaction (Yale Center for British Art, 1983-04-20 - 1983-06-19) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Richard Wilson - The Landscape of Reaction (National Museum Wales, 1983-01-29 - 1983-03-20) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Richard Wilson - The Landscape of Reaction (Tate Britain, 1982-11-03 - 1983-01-02) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

A Great Collection of British Pictures in Virginia, The Times (London), , May 1, 1963, p. 5, Times Digital Archive [ORBIS]

Katharine Baetjer, Glorious nature, British landscape painting, 1750-1850 , Zwemmer publisher, London, 1993, pp. 98-9, no. 6, ND1354.4 B34 1993 (YCBA) [YCBA]

W. G. Constable, Richard Wilson, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1953, pp. 21, 70, 177, note 38b, note 38b, pl. 38b, NJ18 W72 C55 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 250, 251, N590.2 A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Catherine M. Gordon, British paintings Hogarth to Turner, Frederick Warne, London, 1981, p. 76, ND466 G67 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Luke Herrmann, The Paul Mellon Collection at Burlington House, Connoisseur, vol. 157, December 1964, p. 216, N1 C75 + OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]

Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , 1,2, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, p. 45 (v.1), no. 17, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Painting in England 1700-1850 from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, The Royal Academy of Arts Winter Exhibition 1964-65., , Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK, 1964, p. 17 (v.1), no. 57, N5220.M45 R69 1964 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Martin Postle, Richard Wilson and the transformation of European landscape painting, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2014, pp. 190, 191, figs. 151 and 152, NJ18.W72 R53 2014 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]

David H. Solkin, Richard Wilson, the landscape of reaction, Tate Publishing, London, 1982, pp. 150-51, no. 10, no. 10, NJ18 W72 S65 + (YCBA) [YCBA]

Spencer-Longhurst, Paul, with Kate Lowry and David Solkin, Richard Wilson Online : A Digital Catalogue Raisonne, , The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London, 2014, no. P14, http://www.richardwilsononline.ac.uk/index.php?WINID=1582051040261 [Website]

The British Castle : A Symbol in Stone, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2017, pp. 8, 10-11, cat. 2, V2722 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Yale University Art Gallery, Painting in England, 1700-1850, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon : [exhibition at] Yale University Art Gallery, April 15-June 20, 1965, , vol. 1, W. Clowes and sons, New Haven, 1965, p. 61 (v.1), no. 226, ND466 Y35 (YCBA) [YCBA]


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