Title: View of St. Peter's and the Vatican from the Janiculum
Object type: Drawing
Date: 1754
Artist:  Richard Wilson 
Artist bio: British, Penegoes, Wales 1712/13–1782 Denbighshire, Wales
Artist nationality: British, Welsh
Artist role: Artist
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)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Churches, term: Landscapes, term: Rome