- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- Bay of Naples
- Date
- 1771 - 1796
- Medium
- Pencil, watercolour
- Dimensions
-
- image width 508mm,
- image length 762mm
- Mount
- mounted by the artist
- Inscription
-
- sheet, recto
- signed and dated “1796”
- Inscription
-
- artist's mount, verso
- “Distance mont Lactarius of the Antients / mount Vesuvius Pines of Solimeno and Lava / of 1771 drawn on the spot by / Francis Towne”
- Object Type
- Watercolour
-
- Catalogue Number
- FT586
- Description Sources
- Christie's records (image)
Provenance
Untraced until offered for sale by the executors of the Montague Meyer family collection at Christie’s on 18 June 1980, lot 68a (with FT558, FT559), where it did not sell. It sold at Christie’s on 17 November 1981, lot 106, whereafter it is untraced. This may well have been commissioned by John Short of Bickham, since it appeared at Christie’s with two others that originated with him.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Untraced
- Christie's, London, London, 17 November 1981, lot 106
- Christie's, London, London, 18 June 1980, lot 68a
Offered for sale with FT558, FT559. Unsold. - Montague Meyer ( - 1961), November 1981
- [?] John Jeffrey Short (1753 - 1801), Bickham, Minehead, Somerset
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The Wrekin, on the Road between Much Wenlock and Shrewsbury
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A View going from the Head of Lake Como over Mount Splugen
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The Campagna near Rome looking towards the Sabine Mountains
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A View near the Arco Scuro Looking towards the Villa Medici
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An Evening View from Mount Palatine looking towards Mount Aventine
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A View on the Banks of the Tiber near Monte Milvio
A View on the Banks of the Tiber near Monte Milvio
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A View of the Temple of Venus looking towards the Island of Nisida
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Chateau de Glerolles, near Vevey on Lake Geneva
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Abbey Valley Crucis, near Llangollen on the River Dee, North Wales
Abbey Valley Crucis, near Llangollen on the River Dee, North Wales
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A View on the Banks of the Dee above Llangollen
A View on the Banks of the Dee above Llangollen
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A View of the Bay of Naples with the Island of Capri
A View of the Bay of Naples with the Island of Capri
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Comment
This is a version of FT230, with some of the right-hand portion missing.
As this drawing was sold with two other Towne views based on his 1780–81 travels, both of which appear to have been commissioned by John Short of Bickham (FT558, FT559), it seems likely that it also originated with Short.