- Description
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- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- Landscape Composition
- Date
- No date
- Medium
- Pen and grey ink, watercolour
- Dimensions
-
- image height 206mm,
- image width 286mm
- Inscription
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- sheet, recto, lower left
- “F.Towne delt”
- Inscription
-
- verso
- signed and numbered “30”
- Object Type
- Watercolour
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- Catalogue Number
- FT794
- Description Sources
- Christie's records (image)
Provenance
Untraced until sold by the heirs of Walter C. Hetherington of Gerrards Cross (dead by 1978) at Christie’s on 14 February 1978, lot 109, to Leger Galleries, whereafter it is untraced. Probably this is BP263, Italian, numbered 30, sold in 1936 by Judith Merivale to Squire Gallery for £5 10s.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Untraced
- Leger Galleries, London, 14 February 1978
- Christie's, London, London, 14 February 1978, lot 109
- Walter C. Hetherington ( - 1978), Gerards Cross, Buckinghamshire, 14 February 1978
- [?] Squire Gallery, London, 1936, GBP 5 10s
- [?] Judith Ann Merivale (1860 - 1945), Oxford, May 1915, BP263
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Comment
Miss Maingey drew a copy of this drawing in or around August 1790, to which Towne himself appears to have made additions (FT852).