- Description
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- Creator
- William Mackinnon (active 1798)
- Title(s)
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- View of Lausanne, after Johann Ludwig Aberli
- Date
- 1798
- Medium
- Pencil, watercolour
- Dimensions
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- image height 384mm,
- image width 569mm
- Inscription
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- sheet, recto, lower left
- “W Mackinnon / 1798”
- Object Type
- Watercolour
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- Collection
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- (115-1873)
- Catalogue Number
- FT842
- Description Sources
- Author's examination of the work (in the frame)
Provenance
Acquired in 1873 by the current owner, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (115-1873). Presumably they acquired it from the same source as the two watercolours by Mackinnon now in the British Museum, which were purchased from Walrond in 1872.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Bibliography
- Adrian Bury, Francis Towne - Lone Star of Water-Colour Painting, Charles Skilton: London, 1962, p. 112
- Timothy Wilcox, Francis Towne, Tate Publishing: London, 1997, p. 160
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