- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
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- A View looking towards the Apennines
- Date
- ca. 1781/08/11
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and brown ink, watercolour
- Dimensions
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- image width 153mm,
- image length 209mm
- Mount
- mounted by the artist
- Inscription
-
- sheet, recto, lower left
- “F.Towne. delt. / 1781 No.6”
- Inscription
-
- sheet, verso
- indistinct
- Inscription
-
- artist's mount, verso
- “No.6. / Light from the right hand. / A View looking towards the Apennines. / Drawn August 11th 1781 by / Francis Towne”
- Object Type
- Watercolour
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- Catalogue Number
- FT301
- Description Sources
- Examination; Christie's records (image)
Provenance
Untraced until acquired by Iolo Anuerin Williams (1890–1962), whose widow gave the drawing to Leonard Duke (1889–1971; no.D4231) on 12 February 1964. In February 1971 Duke gave it to Anthony Spink, who sold it at Christie’s on 5 June 2007, lot 129, for £19,200, including fees to John Spink.
- Associated People & Organisations
- John Spink, 5 June 2007, GBP 19200 including fees
- Christie's, London, London, 5 June 2007, lot 129
- Spink, Anthony (as owner, also a dealer), February 1971
- Leonard Duke (1889 - 1971), 12 February 1964, no.D4231
Presented by the widow of Iolo Anuerin Williams - Iolo Anuerin Williams (1890 - 1962)
- Private Collection
- Exhibition History
- Exhibition of Original Drawings at the Gallery, No.20 Lower Brook Street, Grosvenor Square, 20 Lower Brook Street, 1805, no. 131 as 'Looking towards the Appenines'
- Eighteenth-Century Italy and the Grand Tour, Castle Museum, 1958, no. 99
- Annual Exhibition of English Watercolours, Spink, 1975, no. 43
- Bibliography
- Adrian Bury, Francis Towne - Lone Star of Water-Colour Painting, Charles Skilton: London, 1962, p. 149
- Iolo Aneurin Williams, Early English Watercolours, and some cognate drawings by artists not later than 1785, Connoisseur: London, 1952, p. 154
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