- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- A View of Rocca di Papa
- Date
- 1781
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and grey ink, grey wash
- Dimensions
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- image width 248mm,
- image length 387mm
- Inscription
-
- sheet, verso
- “No50 A view of Rocca del Papa / Francis Towne / 1781”
- Object Type
- Monochrome wash
-
- Collection
-
- (no.26/36)
- Catalogue Number
- FT281
- Description Sources
- Examination; Museum records (image)
Provenance
Untraced until 1936 when it was given by Sir Michael Ernest Sadler (1861–1943) to the present owner, Leeds City Art Gallery (Acc. no.26/36). Without there being any direct evidence, this has the character of the relatively modest drawings that Bernard Milling of Squire Gallery bought from Judith Merivale, and certainly its freshness argues against a long chain of ownership.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, 1936, no.26/36
- Sir Michael Ernest Sadler (1861 - 1943)
- Exhibition History
- Watercolours and Drawings from the City Art Gallery, Leeds, Thomas Agnew & Sons, 1960, no. 48
- Sadler Exhibition, Leeds City Art Gallery, 1962, no. 95
- Bibliography
- Adrian Bury, Francis Towne - Lone Star of Water-Colour Painting, Charles Skilton: London, 1962, p. 131
- Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds Art Calendar, No. 26: Leeds, 1954, p. 10
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Comment
This view of the town also appears in FT282.