- Description
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- Title(s)
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- Castle of Ischia
- Date
- No date
- Medium
- Pencil, watercolour
- Dimensions
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- image height 197mm,
- image width 273mm
- Inscription
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- sheet, recto, lower right
- “F.Towne / delt”
- Object Type
- Watercolour
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- Catalogue Number
- FT803
- Description Sources
- Christie's records (image)
Provenance
Bequeathed by the artist in 1816 to James White of Exeter (1744–1825), on whose death it passed to Towne’s residuary legatee John Herman Merivale (1779–1844) and his successors. It descended to Francis Temple-West, the second husband of Blanche Liddell whose first husband, John William Merivale (1887–1916), was Merivale’s great-grandson. On 18 June 1956 Temple-West sold it to Agnew’s (no.8339) with FT096, FT566, FT603, FT631, where it was bought on 14 January 1957 for £150 by a collector who sold it at Christie’s on 10 July 1984, lot 191, whereafter it is untraced. Just possibly this is BP261, Copy of Engraving signed, although see also FT809.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Untraced
- Christie's, London, London, 10 July 1984, lot 191
- Private Collection, 14 January 1957, GBP 150
- Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 18 June 1956, no.8339
- Francis Temple West, June 1956
- Blanche Liddell
- John William Merivale (1887 - 1916)
- John Herman Merivale (1779 - 1844), 1825
- James White (1744 - 1825), Exeter, 1816
Other entries in Compositions and Copies, 1782–95
A Memory of Lord Ashburnham’s Claude
Study in the Style of Salvator Rosa
Study in the Style of Salvator Rosa
Study in the Style of Salvator Rosa
Footnotes
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Comment
This drawing is a version of plate 5 of Twelve Original Views in Italy, drawn by Richard Wilson, etched by Joseph Farington, Rooker, &c. &c. published by J & J Boydell (London, 1776).1 Towne’s version lacks the figures and has a slightly enlarged foreground. It is one of four copies from the book drawn by Towne and his pupils (FT843, FT851, FT860).
Figure 1.
Richard Wilson, Twelve Etchings of Views in Italy, ca. 1755, Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Digital image courtesy of Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, B1977.14.21011(i)