View of the Colosseum

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Artist: Richard Wilson (British, Penegoes, Wales 1712/13–1782 Denbighshire, Wales)
Date: 1751–56
Medium: Black chalk heightened with white chalk on gray paper; sheet laid down on pink paper mount with double border in brown ink
Dimensions: Sheet: 10 3/16 × 7 11/16 in. (25.9 × 19.5 cm) Mount: 11 3/4 in. × 9 3/8 in. (29.9 × 23.8 cm)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawings
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Anonymous Gift, 1964
Accession no.: 64.45

Italian Landscape with Umbrella Pine in Foreground
Richard Wilson
n.d. · Drawing
Public collection via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00003916
'Il Mascherone,' a Rocaille Fountain on the Grounds of the Villa Borghese
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.