- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
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- A View on the Banks of the Tiber near Monte Milvio
- Date
- 1786
- Medium
- Pencil (?), pen and grey ink, watercolour
- Dimensions
-
- image width 314mm,
- image length 450mm
- Mount
- mounted by the artist
- Inscription
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- sheet, recto, lower right
- “Francis Towne delt. 1786”
- Inscription
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- artist's mount, verso
- “No.7 / Rome / A View on the Banks of the Tyber / near Ponte Molle / drawn on the spot / by Francis Towne / 1786”
- Object Type
- Watercolour
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- Collection
- Catalogue Number
- FT431
- Description Sources
- Examination; Museum records (image)
Provenance
Commissioned by Thomas Snow of Cleve (1748-1832) and sold in 1952 by his great-great-granddaughter, Beatrice Stella Llewellyn of Tavistock and Sloane Court, London SW3 (b 1893) to the present owner, the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter (78/1952.2).
- Associated People & Organisations
- Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery, Exeter, 1952, 78/1952.2
- Beatrice Stella Llewellyn (1893), Exwick, Exeter
- Thomas Snow (1748 - 1832), Exwick, Exeter
- Exhibition History
- Treasures of the Exeter Museums: Centenary Exhibition, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, 1969, no. 129
- Paintings and Drawings by Francis Towne and John White Abbott in the collection of Exeter Museums and Art Gallery, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, 1971, no. 6
- Francis Towne & John White Abbott: Paintings and Watercolours from the Exeter Museums and Art Gallery, Marble Hill House, 1973, no. 6
- Bibliography
- Jane C. Baker, Catalogue of Oil Paintings, Watercolours, Drawings and Sculpture, Exeter Museums: Exeter, 1978, p. 118
- Adrian Bury, The Cecil Higgins Museum Bedford, ed. Adrian Bury: London, 1961, p. 134
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