- Description
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- Creator
- Unidentified circle of Towne
- Title(s)
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- Landscape, after Francis Towne
- Date
- No date
- Medium
- Pen and ink, watercolour
- Dimensions
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- image diameter 150mm
- Object Type
- Watercolour
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- Versions
- Landscape Composition
- Catalogue Number
- FT839
- Description Sources
- Christie's records (image)
Provenance
In the collection of Walter C. Hetherington of Gerrards Cross (dead by 1978) and sold at Christie’s on 14 February 1978, lot 110 (as by Francis Towne), to Leger Galleries. It was withdrawn from sale (as by Francis Towne) at Christie’s, 10 December 2008, lot 16.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Untraced
- Christie's, London, London, 10 December 2008, lot 16
Withdrawn from sale. - Leger Galleries, London, 14 February 1978
- Christie's, London, London, 14 February 1978, lot 110
- Walter C. Hetherington ( - 1978), Gerards Cross, Buckinghamshire
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Comment
Although consistently sold as a Towne, this is one of two copies of FT792 (the other copy being FT845). It is clearly the work of an amateur hand, the scrappy pen work and especially the rough application of washes falling below Towne’s standards.