- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- Blasted Pine Tree in the Villa Mondragone, Frascati
- Date
- 1781
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and grey ink, grey wash
- Dimensions
-
- image width 312mm,
- image length 211mm
- Inscription
-
- sheet, verso
- “No.58 Blasted pine Tree / in the Villa Dragona Frescati / Francis Towne / 1781”
- in brown ink
- Object Type
- Monochrome wash
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- Catalogue Number
- FT288
- Description Sources
- Examination; Christie's records (image)
Provenance
Bequeathed by the artist in 1816 to James White of Exeter (1744–1825), on whose death it passed to Towne’s residuary legatee John Herman Merivale (1779–1844) and his successors. Merivale’s granddaughters Maria Sophia Merivale (1853–1928) and Judith Ann Merivale (1860–1945), both of Oxford, inherited the drawing in May 1915 (BP20). Judith Merivale sold the drawing to Squire Gallery in February 1935 for £16 16s. (with BP209 [404]), which is probably where Sir Michael Ernest Sadler (1861–1943) bought it. His son Michael Thomas Harvey Sadleir (1888–1957) sold it to Agnew’s (no.4004) on 26 October 1944 for £45. On 28 November 1944 it was sold by Agnew’s for £70 less commission of £3 10s. to Sir William Worsley, Bt (1890–1973), whose family offered it for sale at Christie’s on 5 June 2003, lot 45, and again at Christie’s on 2 July 2013, where it was unsold on both occasions.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Private Collection
- Christie's, London, London, 2 July 2013
Unsold - Christie's, London, London, 5 June 2003, lot 45
Unsold - Sir William Worsley (1890 - 1973), 28 November 1944, GBP 70
- Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 26 October 1944, GBP 45, no.4004
- Michael Thomas Harvey Sadleir (1888 - 1957)
- Sir Michael Ernest Sadler (1861 - 1943)
- Squire Gallery, February 1935, GBP 16.6s
Acquired with FT404 - Judith Ann Merivale (1860 - 1945), Oxford, May 1915, BP20
- Maria Sophia Merivale (1853 - 1928), Oxford, May 1915, BP20
- John Herman Merivale (1779 - 1844), 1825
- James White (1744 - 1825), Exeter, 1816
- Exhibition History
- [?] 67th Annual Exhibition of Water-Colour and Pencil Drawings, Thomas Agnew & Sons, 1940, no. 133 as 'Frascati (1781)'
- Watercolours by Francis Towne, City Art Gallery, 1950, no. 16
- English Watercolours from Four Yorkshire Houses 1660-1860, Scarborough Art Gallery, 1950, no. 12
- Three Centuries of British Water-colours, Arts Council, 1951, no. 190
- Bibliography
- Adrian Bury, Francis Towne - Lone Star of Water-Colour Painting, Charles Skilton: London, 1962, p. 140
- Timothy Wilcox, Francis Towne, Tate Publishing: London, 1997, p. 86
Other entries in Italy Series, April to June 1781
Thirteen Miles on the Road from Rome to Tivoli
A View of Rocca di Papa with Part of the Convent
A View of the Spot where Hannibal is said to have looked at Rome
A View of the Spot from which Hannibal is said to have looked at Rome
Monte Porzio Catone from the Park of the Villa Mondragone at Frascati
Blasted Pine Tree in the Villa Mondragone, Frascati
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