- Description
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- Title(s)
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- Italianate Landscape
- Date
- No date
- Medium
- Pencil (?), pen and ink, (?) watercolour
- Dimensions
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- image height 290mm,
- image width 400mm
- Mount
- mounted by the artist
- Object Type
- Watercolour
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- Collection
- Catalogue Number
- FT886
- Description Sources
- Examination; Museum records (image)
Provenance
Descended from the artist through the Merivale family and acquired at an unknown date, but in or before 1953, by Agnes Lupton (1874–1950) and Norman Darnton Lupton (1875–1953) of Hyde Crook, Dorchester, Dorset, who bequeathed it to the present owner, Leeds City Art Gallery.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, 1953
- Norman Darnton Lupton (1875 - 1953), Dorchester, 1953
- Agnes Lupton (1874 - 1950), Dorchester, 1953
Other entries in Merivale Family
Louisa Heath Drury (née Merivale)
Landscape, probably Oakhampton Castle
Landscape, probably Oakhampton Castle
Frances Mallett (née Merivale), John Herman Merivale
Mount Radford from near the Alphington Road
Mount Radford from near the Alphington Road
John Herman Merivale
Sketchbook of West Country and Midlands Views
Sketchbook of West Country and Midlands Views
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Comment
This drawing appears to be an idealised composition inspired by an etching by Giuliano Giampiccoli after Marco Ricci. Probably it was based on a lost Towne drawing as it is drawn in Towne’s characteristic curly pen style.
Figure 1.
Giuliano Giampiccoli, Landscape with stone bridge and some figures, etching, 1739 - 1740
Digital image courtesy of Rijksmuseum, RP-P-1952-22