- Description
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- Title(s)
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- Netley Abbey
- Date
- 1803
- Medium
- Watercolour
- Dimensions
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- image height 550mm,
- image width 400mm
- Support
- paper watermarked “J WHATMAN 1794”
- Mount
- mounted
- Inscription
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- sheet, recto, lower right
- “PC. Carpenter delt. 1803”
- in Towne’s hand(?)
- Inscription
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- artist's mount, verso
- “Netley Abbey near Southampton / From a Drawing of / Francis Towne’s / 1803”
- in light brown ink in Towne’s hand
- Object Type
- Watercolour
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- Catalogue Number
- FT895a
- Description Sources
- Examination (image)
Provenance
Descended from the artist until sold at Hansons Auctioneers, Derbyshire on 4 May 2013, lot 29.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Private Collection
- Hansons Auctioneers & Valuers, 4 May 2013, lot 29
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Comment
This is after an unknown watercolour (FT895g), presumably from Towne’s 1798 visit. It is similar in character to the large reworked study of Netley in ruins that is now at the Tate (FT601).