- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- Lake Albano
- Date
- 1781/07/10
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and grey ink, grey/brown wash
- Dimensions
-
- image width 318mm,
- image length 457mm
- Support
- olaid paper watermarked "J WHATMAN" with a vertical crease down its centre
- Inscription
-
- sheet, verso
- “No2 Lake of Albano / Evening Sun behind the trees on the left / hand/ July the 10th. 1781 / Francis Towne” in brown ink, and elsewhere, “A Copy of this painted on canvass the same size for James Curtis Esq. 1784.”
- Object Type
- Watercolour
-
- Versions
- Lake Albano
- Catalogue Number
- FT292
- 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 (BP23). In 1933 Judith Merivale sold it for £6 10s. to Squire Gallery, where in February 1934 it was bought by Leonard Duke (1889–1971) for 16½ guineas (no.D105). Duke sold the drawing to Nigel Warren QC (1912–1967) for £200 in November 1955, and it was sold, probably by his heirs, at Christie’s on 6 June 2002, lot 9, for £26,290 (including fees) to a US private collector, who retained it until 2014, when it was acquired by Lowell Libson Ltd.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Private Collection
- Lowell Libson, London, 2014
- Private Collection, 6 June 2002, GBP 26290
- Christie's, London, London, 2002, lot 9
- Nigel Warren (1912 - 1967), November 1955, GBP 200
- Leonard Duke (1889 - 1971), February 1934, GBP 16.5gns, no.D105
- Squire Gallery, London, 1933, GBP 6.10s
- Judith Ann Merivale (1860 - 1945), Oxford, May 1915, BP23
- Maria Sophia Merivale (1853 - 1928), Oxford, May 1915, BP23
- John Herman Merivale (1779 - 1844), 1825
- James White (1744 - 1825), Exeter, 1816
- Exhibition History
- Three Exeter Artists of the Eighteenth Century: Francis Hayman RA, Francis Towne, John White Abbott, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, 1951, no. 188
- Bibliography
- Thomas Jones ed. Paul Oppé, 'Memoirs of Thomas Jones', The Walpole Society: London, 1951, p. 55
Other entries in Albano Series, July 1781
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