- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- Ariccia
- Date
- 1784
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
-
- image width 340mm,
- image length 490mm
- Inscription
-
- canvas, recto
- signed and dated “1784”
- Inscription
-
- canvas, verso
- indistinct
- Object Type
- Oil painting
-
- Versions
- Arricia
- Catalogue Number
- FT410
- Description Sources
- Spink records; Witt Library (image)
Provenance
Commissioned by James Curtis in 1784 and thereafter untraced until sold at Sotheby’s on 22 December 1971, lot 203, for £800 to Spink & Son, who sold it on 16 June 1972 to a UK art dealer for £1,485. In 1997 it was in a private collection, San Fransisco.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Spink & Son, London, London, 22 December 1971, GBP 800
- Sotheby's, London, London, 22 December 1971
lot 203 - James Curtis, 1784
- Private Collection, San Francisco
- Bibliography
- Timothy Wilcox, Francis Towne, Tate Publishing: London, 1997, p. 58
Other entries in Oil Paintings, 1784–1801
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Comment
This is a version in oil of the sketch of Ariccia dated 11 July 1781 (FT297), which Towne inscribed: “A Copy of this painted on canvas for James Curtis Esqr. 1784.”