- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- View going over Mount Splugen
- Date
- ca. 1784 - 1785
- Medium
- Pencil, watercolour
- Dimensions
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- image width 495mm,
- image length 580mm
- Inscription
-
- sheet, recto, lower left
- “Francis Towne delt 1784 [and indistinctly “Francis . . .1785”]”
- Inscription
-
- sheet, verso
- “View going over Mount Splugen Drawn by Francis Towne 1785”
- Object Type
- Watercolour
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- Collection
- Versions
- Waterfall between Chiavenna and Mount Splugen
A View going from the Head of Lake Como over Mount Splugen
- Catalogue Number
- FT423
- Description Sources
- Museum records (image)
Provenance
Untraced until 16 July 1947 when R. J. Aldridge sold it to Colnaghi (no.A14637), who sold it on 18 July 1947 (17 July according to Gilbert Davis’s record) for £90 to Gilbert Davis (1899–1983), who sold it in 1959 to the current owner, Huntingdon Library (59.55.1273).
- Associated People & Organisations
- Huntington Library, San Marino, California, San Marino, 1959, 59.55.1273
- Gilbert Davis (1899 - 1983), 18 July 1947, GBP 90
- P&D Colnaghi & Co, London, 16 July 1947
no.A14637 - R. J. Aldridge
- Exhibition History
- Three Exeter Artists of the Eighteenth Century: Francis Hayman RA, Francis Towne, John White Abbott, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, 1951, no. 24
- Gilbert Davis Collection (2nd Series), Arts Council, 1955, no. 68
- British Landscape Drawings and Watercolours 1750-1850: Twenty Four Examples from The Huntingdon Collection, Huntingdon Library, 1981, no. 7
- Bibliography
- Adrian Bury, Francis Towne - Lone Star of Water-Colour Painting, Charles Skilton: London, 1962, p. 139
- Timothy Wilcox, Francis Towne, Tate Publishing: London, 1997, p. 133
Other entries in Studio Watercolours, 1783–1800
Francis Towne
Much Wenlock, Shropshire, with the Ruins of the Priory Church
Much Wenlock, Shropshire, with the Ruins of the Priory Church
Francis Towne
The Wrekin, on the Road between Much Wenlock and Shrewsbury
The Wrekin, on the Road between Much Wenlock and Shrewsbury
Francis Towne
A View going from the Head of Lake Como over Mount Splugen
A View going from the Head of Lake Como over Mount Splugen
Francis Towne
The Campagna near Rome looking towards the Sabine Mountains
The Campagna near Rome looking towards the Sabine Mountains
Francis Towne
A View of Loreto with Part of the Adriatic Sea
A View of Loreto with Part of the Adriatic Sea
Francis Towne
A View near the Arco Scuro Looking towards the Villa Medici
A View near the Arco Scuro Looking towards the Villa Medici
Francis Towne
An Evening View from Mount Palatine looking towards Mount Aventine
An Evening View from Mount Palatine looking towards Mount Aventine
Francis Towne
A View on the Banks of the Tiber near Monte Milvio
A View on the Banks of the Tiber near Monte Milvio
Francis Towne
A View of the Temple of Venus looking towards the Island of Nisida
A View of the Temple of Venus looking towards the Island of Nisida
Francis Towne
Chateau de Glerolles, near Vevey on Lake Geneva
Chateau de Glerolles, near Vevey on Lake Geneva
Francis Towne
Abbey Valley Crucis, near Llangollen on the River Dee, North Wales
Abbey Valley Crucis, near Llangollen on the River Dee, North Wales
Francis Towne
A View on the Banks of the Dee above Llangollen
A View on the Banks of the Dee above Llangollen
Francis Towne
A View of the Bay of Naples with the Island of Capri
A View of the Bay of Naples with the Island of Capri
Footnotes
- 1 The Listener, 13 October 1955, p.612; via the Listener Historical Archive, accessed 11 August 2014.
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Comment
This is a version of FT355 (see also FT417) and is probably the drawing to which Alan Clutton-Brock was referring when he reviewed the 1955 exhibition of Gilbert Davis’s watercolours at the Arts Council: