The works in this section are assumed to have been destroyed, but there is direct documentary evidence that they once existed; furthermore, the evidence dates from Towne’s own lifetime or shortly after it.
Where surviving drawings are fragments of a numbered series, the lost parts of the series have not been listed here. It would add no real knowledge to state that, if a drawing numbered 7 exists, then there must also once have existed drawings numbered 1 to 6, especially when literally nothing else about those drawings can be surmised from the one survival.
Towne’s lost works are organised here according to the nature of the evidence that demonstrates they once existed: ‘Sold’, ‘Copied’, and ‘Exhibited’.
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A View of the Fort and across the River Exe
A View from the South East Window of the Belvedere
A View looking towards Star Cross and Exmouth from the South-East window of the Belvedere
A View from the North-East(?) Window of the Belvedere
A View from the North-East window of the Belvedere
A View in Okehampton Park, looking towards Dartmoor
An Evening View from Mount Palatine looking towards Mount Aventine
Near the Cascade in the Groves at Ambleside
Temple of Hercules Victor, Tivoli, after Richard Wilson
A large Landscape, with a Scene in Shakespeare’s Cymberline
A View on the River Exe, taken near the Seat of Sir Francis Drake, Devonshire
The Ruins of La Bathia, near Martigny, Switzerland
A View in Neptune’s Grotto of the Sybil’s Temple at Tivoli
View of the Passage over Mount Splugen in the Alps
The Wrekin in Shropshire going off of a storm
Chateau de Blonay near Vevey, at the Head of Lake Geneva
View near the Chateau de Chillon at the Head of Lake Geneva
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- Article title
- Lost Works
- Author
- Richard Stephens
- Date
- 13/01/2016
- Article DOI
- https://doi.org/10.17658/towne/s7
- Cite as
- Richard Stephens, "Lost Works", A Catalogue Raisonné of Francis Towne (1739-1816), (London: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2016), https://doi.org/10.17658/towne/s7
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