- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- At Tivoli
- In a Wood of Olives at Tivoli
- Date
- 1781
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and grey ink, grey and blue washes
- Dimensions
-
- image width 380mm,
- image length 500mm
- Support
- wove paper
- Mount
- mounted by the artist
- Inscription
-
- sheet, recto, lower right
- “No17 / Francis Towne delt 1781”
- Inscription
-
- artist's mount, verso
- “At Tivoli / No17. / Drawn on the Spot / by / Francis Towne / 1781”
- Object Type
- Monochrome wash
-
- Catalogue Number
- FT259
- Description Sources
- Examination; Sotheby's records (image)
Provenance
Sold by descendants of John White Abbott at Sotheby’s on 10 April 1997, lot 40, whereafter it is untraced.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Untraced
- Sotheby's, London, London, 10 April 1997
lot 40 - John White Abbott (1763 - 1851)
- Exhibition History
- [?] Exhibition of Original Drawings at the Gallery, No.20 Lower Brook Street, Grosvenor Square, 20 Lower Brook Street, 1805, no. 149 as 'In a Wood of Olives at Tivoli'
- Three Exeter Artists of the Eighteenth Century: Francis Hayman RA, Francis Towne, John White Abbott, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, 1951, no. 87
- Bibliography
- Paul Oppé, 'Francis Towne, Landscape Painter', The Walpole Society: London, 1920, p. 77
- Adrian Bury, Francis Towne - Lone Star of Water-Colour Painting, Charles Skilton: London, 1962, p. 151
- Timothy Wilcox, Francis Towne, Tate Publishing: London, 1997, p. 74
Other entries in Italy Series, April to June 1781
Francis Towne
Thirteen Miles on the Road from Rome to Tivoli
Thirteen Miles on the Road from Rome to Tivoli
Francis Towne
A View of Rocca di Papa with Part of the Convent
A View of Rocca di Papa with Part of the Convent
Francis Towne
A View of the Spot where Hannibal is said to have looked at Rome
A View of the Spot where Hannibal is said to have looked at Rome
Francis Towne
A View of the Spot from which Hannibal is said to have looked at Rome
A View of the Spot from which Hannibal is said to have looked at Rome
Francis Towne
Monte Porzio Catone from the Park of the Villa Mondragone at Frascati
Monte Porzio Catone from the Park of the Villa Mondragone at Frascati
Francis Towne
Blasted Pine Tree in the Villa Mondragone, Frascati
Blasted Pine Tree in the Villa Mondragone, Frascati
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Comment
This is possibly the same tree that Towne depicts in FT257. John White Abbott made a copy of part of this drawing (FT819). It is interesting that Towne mounted this overwhelmingly monochrome drawing. Either he considered it sufficiently resolved as a tonal study or his plans to colour it were never executed.