- Description
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- Title(s)
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- Mendrisio
- Date
- No date
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and grey ink, watercolour
- Dimensions
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- image height 260mm,
- image width 412mm
- Mount
- mounted by the artist
- Inscription
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- artist's mount, verso
- “Mendris near Como – Morning Light from the Right. F.T.J.W.A.”
- Object Type
- Watercolour
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- Collection
- Versions
- A View of Mendrisio
- Catalogue Number
- FT826
- Description Sources
- Examination; Museum records (image)
Provenance
Descended from the artist to Gertrude Agnes White Abbott (d.1937, née Prynne), wife of the artist’s grandson, who gave it in 1923 to the present owner, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (E.3986-1923).
- Associated People & Organisations
- Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1923, E.3986-1923
- Gertrude Agnes White Abbott ( - 1937), 1923
- Bibliography
- Timothy Wilcox, Francis Towne, Tate Publishing: London, 1997, p. 158
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Comment
This is a copy of FT343, a monochrome work. Unusually, given his fidelity as a copyist, White Abbott has added colour to his version.