- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- Lake Como
- Date
- ca. 1781/08/27
- Medium
- Pencil (?), pen and brown ink, watercolour, scratching out
- Dimensions
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- image width 155mm,
- image length 209mm
- Mount
- mounted by the artist
- Inscription
-
- artist's mount, verso
- “Light on the right hand”, dated 27 August 1781, and numbered “22”
- Object Type
- Watercolour
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- Catalogue Number
- FT314
- Description Sources
- Christie's records (image); Agnew's records
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 (BP52) and sold it in 1925 to Miss L. Arthur of Butter Hill, Dorking, for £10. It is thereafter untraced apart from a valuation undertaken by Christie’s in 1973.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Untraced
- Miss L. Arthur, Dorking, 1925, GBP 10
- Judith Ann Merivale (1860 - 1945), Oxford, May 1915, BP52
- Maria Sophia Merivale (1853 - 1928), Oxford, May 1915, BP52
- John Herman Merivale (1779 - 1844), 1825
- James White (1744 - 1825), Exeter, 1816
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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