View of St. Peter's and the Vatican from the Janiculum

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Artist: Richard Wilson (British, Penegoes, Wales 1712/13–1782 Denbighshire, Wales)
Date: 1754
Medium: Black chalk with stumping, heightened with white chalk on blue paper; laid down on original paper mount with purple border
Dimensions: Sheet: 11 1/4 × 16 11/16 in. (28.5 × 42.4 cm) Mount: 13 3/4 in. × 19 9/16 in. (35 × 49.7 cm)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawings
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971
Accession no.: 1972.118.294

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Public collection via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00003916
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Richard Wilson
c. 1754 · Drawing
Public collection via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00003917
Banks of the River Dee near Eaton Hall, Cheshire
Richard Wilson
c. 1759 · Drawing
Public collection via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00003918
View of Saint Peter's from the Palace of the Caesars, with Circus Maximus Below
Richard Wilson
n.d. · Drawing
Public collection via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00003919

Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.