- Description
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- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
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- Bissone, on Lake Lugano
- Date
- ca. 1781/08/24
- Medium
- Pencil (?), pen and brown and grey inks, watercolour
- Dimensions
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- image width 155mm,
- image length 212mm
- Mount
- mounted by the artist on paper watermarked "J WHATMAN 1804"
- Inscription
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- artist's mount, verso
- “Bisone on the Lake of Lugano August 24th 1781 No.18 / Drawn by Francis Towne [“Bisone” in pencil only, the rest of the line in pen and ink, the remainder in ink only]”
- Object Type
- Watercolour
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- Collection
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- (T08560)
- Catalogue Number
- FT310
- Description Sources
- Examination; Museum records (image)
Provenance
Untraced until sold anonymously at Foster’s on 27 July 1910, lot 151 (a group with FT228, FT257, FT283, FT284, FT296, FT310, FT318, FT319, FT325, FT326, FT327, FT329, FT330, FT339, FT340, FT361, FT793, FT862), for 25s. to Paul Oppé (1878–1957; no.52), whose descendants sold it with the rest of Oppé’s collection in 1996 to the present owner, the Tate Gallery (T08560).
- Associated People & Organisations
- Tate, London, 1996, T08560
- Adolph Paul Oppé (1878 - 1957), London, 27 July 1910, GBP 25s, no.52
- Foster's auctioneers (1883 - 1940), 27 July 1910, lot 151
Sold as a group with FT228, FT257, FT283, FT284, FT296, FT310, FT318, FT319, FT325, FT326, FT327, FT329, FT330, FT339, FT340, FT361, FT793 and a drawing by an unidentified pupil.
- Exhibition History
- Exhibition of Original Drawings at the Gallery, No.20 Lower Brook Street, Grosvenor Square, 20 Lower Brook Street, 1805, no. 114 or 115 as 'Besoni on the Lake of Lugano'
- Catalogue of a collection of pictures, drawings, furniture and works of art of the Empire and Regency period : select examples of Romano-British art, Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1929, no. 2
- Twee Eeuwen Engelsche Kunst, Stedelijk Museum, 1936, no. 233
- 76th Annual Exhibition of Water-Colour Drawings, Thomas Agnew & Sons, 1949, no. 1949
- Early English Drawings and Watercolours from the Collection of Paul Oppe Esq., Graves Art Gallery, 1952, no. 67
- Exhibition of Works from The Paul Oppe Collection, Royal Academy, 1958, no. 91
- De Englese Aquarel uit de 18de Eeuw, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; Albertina, Vienna, 1965, no. 119
- Bibliography
- Adrian Bury, Francis Towne - Lone Star of Water-Colour Painting, Charles Skilton: London, 1962, p. 146
- Paul Oppé, 'Francis Towne, Landscape Painter', The Walpole Society: London, 1920, p. 118
Other entries in Small Sketchbook: Northern Italy, Switzerland, Savoy and Germany, August and September 1781
Francis Towne
A View of a Bridge Fifteen Miles from Florence on the Road to Bologna
A View of a Bridge Fifteen Miles from Florence on the Road to Bologna
Francis Towne
Le Rêve at the Head of Lake Como (Lago di Mezzola)
Le Rêve at the Head of Lake Como (Lago di Mezzola)
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Comment
This is one of two works of or near Bissone on Lake Lugano (also FT309), both of which are assumed to have been exhibited in 1805.