- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
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- View of Rome
- Date
- ca. 1780 - 1781
- Medium
- Probably pencil and watercolour, judging from the surviving examples from the same numbered series
- Dimensions
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- [?] image height 320–33 mm,
- [?] image length 450–89 mm
- Mount
- (?) mounted by the artist
- Inscription
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- artist's mount, verso
- probably numbered “5”
- Object Type
- Watercolour
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- Catalogue Number
- FT427b
- Description Sources
- Jones 1890; Inferred from FT426, FT428, FT431, FT432
Provenance
Probably commissioned by Thomas Snow of Cleve (1748–1832) and still at Cleve in 1890, since when it is untraced.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Untraced
- [?] Thomas Snow (1748 - 1832), Exwick, Exeter
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