- Description
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- Title(s)
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- A View of Lake Maggiore from Lavano
- Date
- No date
- Medium
- Pen and grey ink, grey wash
- Dimensions
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- image height 265mm,
- image width 360mm
- Inscription
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- sheet, verso
- “View of Isola Bella [scratched out] FT JWA”
- Object Type
- Monochrome wash
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- Versions
- A View of Lake Maggiore from Laveno
- Catalogue Number
- FT820
- Description Sources
- Examination
Provenance
Descended through the White Abbott family until sold at Sotheby’s 25 November 1999, lot 92, for £850. Now in the collection of Winchester College.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Winchester College, 2016
- Sotheby's, London, London, 25 November 1999, lot 92
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Comment
This is a copy of FT350. The version by White Abbott continues the composition beyond the left edge of Towne’s drawing, suggesting that Towne’s original has a lost section.