- Description
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- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
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- A View from the North-East window of the Belvedere
- Date
- No date
- Object Type
- Unknown
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- Catalogue Number
- FT129
- Description Sources
- Christie's records
- Associated People & Organisations
- Untraced
- Thompson, 15 February 1817, GBP 14s
- Christie's, London, London, 15 February 1817, lot 6
- 3rd Viscount William Courtenay (1768 - 1835)
- 2nd Viscount William Courtenay (1742 - 1788)
- Bibliography
- Timothy Wilcox, Francis Towne, Tate Publishing: London, 1997, pp. 36-37, 130
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Comment
Commissioned by 2nd Viscount Courtenay and sold by his son, 3rd Viscount Courtenay, at Christie’s on 15 February 1817 was a group of “Capital Loose Drawings by Towne”. Lot 6, Ditto [i.e. View] from the N. E. window of ditto, went for 14s. to Thompson.