- Description
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- Title(s)
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- Lake Como
- Date
- No date
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and grey ink, brown and grey washes
- Dimensions
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- image height 155mm,
- image width 217mm
- Mount
- mounted by the artist
- Inscription
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- sheet, verso
- “The Lake of Como” and initialled “JWA” and “FT”
- Object Type
- Monochrome wash
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- Catalogue Number
- FT825
- Description Sources
- Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood records (image)
Provenance
Sold at Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood of Exeter on 23 October 2013, lot 451 (see also 830), by a deceased estate. It is probably the same drawing offered by the White Abbott family at Sotheby’s on 11 November 1993, lot 88, where it did not sell (although Sotheby’s gave marginally different dimensions—150 x 210 mm—and described ink as brown rather than grey). Two of the 2013 group had been given to the artist’s daughter, Elizabeth Abbott, in 1832.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Untraced
- Bearne's, Exeter, 23 October 2013, lot 451
- [?] Sotheby's, London, London, 11 November 1993, lot 88
Unsold. - Elizabeth Abbott, Exeter, 1832
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Comment
This is a copy of a lost drawing by Towne (FT316a), similar in viewpoint to FT316.