- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- Going up Mount Splugen
- Date
- ca. 1781
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and brown ink, watercolour with gum, scratching out
- Dimensions
-
- image width 213mm,
- image length 333mm
- Support
- two sheets
- Mount
- mounted by the artist
- Inscription
-
- sheet, recto
- “Francis Towne / delt. 1781”
- in black ink
- Inscription
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- artist's mount, verso
- “Going up Mount Splugen / drawn on the Spot / by / Francis Towne 1781”
- the year in black ink, the rest in brown ink
- Object Type
- Watercolour
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- Collection
-
- (T08570)
- Catalogue Number
- FT327
- Description Sources
- Examination; Museum records (image)
Provenance
Untraced until sold anonymously at Foster’s on 27 July 1910, lot 151 (FT228, FT257, FT283, FT284, FT296, FT310, FT318, FT319, FT325, FT326, FT327, FT329, FT330, FT339, FT340, FT361, FT793, FT862) for 25s. to Paul Oppé (1878–1957; no.50), whose descendants sold it in 1996 with the rest of Oppé’s collection to the present owner, the Tate Gallery (T08570).
- Associated People & Organisations
- Tate, London, 1996, T08570
- Adolph Paul Oppé (1878 - 1957), London, 27 July 1910, GBP 25s, no.50
- Foster's auctioneers (1883 - 1940), 27 July 1910, 25s, lot 151
Sold as a group with FT228, FT257, FT283, FT284, FT296, FT310, FT318, FT319, FT325, FT326, FT327, FT329, FT330, FT339, FT340, FT361, FT793 and a drawing by an unidentified pupil
- Exhibition History
- 76th Annual Exhibition of Water-Colour Drawings, Thomas Agnew & Sons, 1949, no. 8
- Francis Towne, Tate Gallery; Leeds City Art Gallery, 24 June 1997 - 4 January 1998, no. 37
- Bibliography
- Adrian Bury, Francis Towne - Lone Star of Water-Colour Painting, Charles Skilton: London, 1962, p. 147
Other entries in Small Sketchbook: Northern Italy, Switzerland, Savoy and Germany, August and September 1781
Francis Towne
A View of a Bridge Fifteen Miles from Florence on the Road to Bologna
A View of a Bridge Fifteen Miles from Florence on the Road to Bologna
Francis Towne
Le Rêve at the Head of Lake Como (Lago di Mezzola)
Le Rêve at the Head of Lake Como (Lago di Mezzola)
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Comment
This is perhaps a view of one of the falls at the Roffla ravine. John “Warwick” Smith drew the same subject, and FT328 is a second drawing of it by Towne.