- Description
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- Title(s)
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- Temple near Naples
- Date
- No date
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and grey ink, grey wash
- Dimensions
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- image height 321mm,
- image length 454mm
- Mount
- mounted by the artist
- Inscription
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- artist's mount, verso
- JWA F.T. Temple near Naples Evening light from the Right 13”
- Object Type
- Monochrome wash
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- Versions
- Roman Ruins, Baia
- Catalogue Number
- FT815
- Description Sources
- Spink records
Provenance
Descended through the White Abbott family until 9 December 1981, when it was bought by Spink & Son from J. N. White Abbott. On 29 April 1982 Spink sold it for £1,100 to a UK art dealer, whereafter it is untraced.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Untraced
- Spink & Son, London, London, 9 December 1981
- Captain John White Abbott (20th Century)
- Exhibition History
- English Watercolour Drawings Annual Exhibition 1982, Spink, 1982, no. 8
- Bibliography
- Timothy Wilcox, Francis Towne, Tate Publishing: London, 1997, pp.156, 158
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Comment
Despite the discrepancy in numbers (Towne’s drawing is numbered 12 and this copy is numbered 13), this could be a copy of the ancient ruins at Baia (FT239). It seems very unlikely to be a copy of Towne’s number 13 (FT240), since White Abbott made a copy of that which he called “The Island of Capria”. (FT817).