- Description
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- Title(s)
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- Head of Lake Geneva
- Date
- No date
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and grey ink, watercolour
- Dimensions
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- image height 202mm,
- image width 265mm
- Support
- two sheets
- Mount
- mounted by the artist
- Inscription
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- artist's mount, verso
- “At the Head of the Lake of Geneva – Evening Light from the Right. F.T.J.W.A.”
- Object Type
- Monochrome wash
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- Collection
- Versions
- Head of Lake Geneva
- Catalogue Number
- FT831
- Description Sources
- Examination; Museum records (image)
Provenance
Descended to Gertrude Agnes White Abbott (d.1937, née Prynne), wife of the artist’s grandson, who gave the drawing in 1923 to the present owner, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (E.3985-1923).
- Associated People & Organisations
- Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1923, E.3985-1923
- Gertrude Agnes White Abbott ( - 1937), 1923
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Comment
The original drawing by Towne (FT373) is known only from this copy.