- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- Tivoli
- At Tivoli
- Date
- 1781/05/16
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and black ink, watercolour
- Dimensions
-
- image width 384mm,
- image length 498mm
- Support
- mounted by the artist on paper watermarked "WHATMAN" and dated "1794"
- Inscription
-
- sheet, recto, lower right
- “No25 / F.Towne delt. / May 16. 1781”
- in brown ink
- Inscription
-
- artist's mount, verso
- “No.25 Tivoli / Francis Towne delt. / 1781[in dark brown ink over scratched-out “May 16. 1781”] / Morning Sun from the right hand”
- Object Type
- Watercolour
-
- Collection
-
- (Nn,2.31)
- Catalogue Number
- FT264
- Description Sources
- Examination; Museum records (image)
Provenance
Bequeathed by the artist in 1816 to James White of Exeter (1744–1825), who gave it in 1816 to the present owner, the British Museum (Nn,2.31).
- Associated People & Organisations
- British Museum, London, 1816, Nn,2.31
- James White (1744 - 1825), Exeter, 1816
- Exhibition History
- [?] Exhibition of Original Drawings at the Gallery, No.20 Lower Brook Street, Grosvenor Square, 20 Lower Brook Street, 1805, no. 149 as 'In a Wood of Olives at Tivoli'
- Light, time, legacy: Francis Towne’s watercolours of Rome, British Museum, 2016
- Bibliography
- Laurence Binyon, Catalogue of Drawings by British Artists and Artists of Foreign Origin Working in Great Britain Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, Trustees of the British Museum: London, 1907, p. 200
- Adrian Bury, Francis Towne - Lone Star of Water-Colour Painting, Charles Skilton: London, 1962, pp. 80, 125
- Timothy Wilcox, Francis Towne, Tate Publishing: London, 1997, p. 73
Other entries in Italy Series, April to June 1781
Francis Towne
Thirteen Miles on the Road from Rome to Tivoli
Thirteen Miles on the Road from Rome to Tivoli
Francis Towne
A View of Rocca di Papa with Part of the Convent
A View of Rocca di Papa with Part of the Convent
Francis Towne
A View of the Spot where Hannibal is said to have looked at Rome
A View of the Spot where Hannibal is said to have looked at Rome
Francis Towne
A View of the Spot from which Hannibal is said to have looked at Rome
A View of the Spot from which Hannibal is said to have looked at Rome
Francis Towne
Monte Porzio Catone from the Park of the Villa Mondragone at Frascati
Monte Porzio Catone from the Park of the Villa Mondragone at Frascati
Francis Towne
Blasted Pine Tree in the Villa Mondragone, Frascati
Blasted Pine Tree in the Villa Mondragone, Frascati
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Comment
Towne made a copy of this drawing in oil dated 1800 (FT617).
This view may depict the monastery of Sant’Antonio, as the buildings include a church and tower in the background, and the robed figures descending the path are similar to those in FT265.