- Description
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- Creator
- E. Oliver after Francis Towne
- Title(s)
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- Landscape with Hermit
- Date
- 1798/11/29
- Medium
- Pen and ink, watercolour
- Dimensions
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- image height 295mm,
- image width 215mm
- Inscription
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- sheet, recto, lower right
- “Nov. 29 1798”
- Inscription
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- sheet, verso
- “from a Drawings of F.Townes / E.Oliver / October 19. 1798.”
- in pencil
- Object Type
- Watercolour
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- Catalogue Number
- FT874
- Description Sources
- Witt Library (image)
Provenance
Untraced until sold by Ethel Mary Leon Jones (d.1975) at Sotheby’s on 3 October 1964, lot 49, to Leger Galleries. The frame bears an old Leger Galleries label with the words “Ex Jeavons Collection”. The drawing was sold at Woolley and Wallis of Salisbury on 12 December 2012, lot 295.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Private Collection, 12 December 2012
- Woolley & Wallis, Salisbury, 12 December 2012, lot 295
- Leger Galleries, London, 3 October 1964
- Sotheby's, London, London, 3 October 1964, lot 49
- Ethel Mary Leon Jones ( - 1975)
- Exhibition History
- Francis Towne and his Friends, John Spink at Colnaghi, 2005, no. 10
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