- Description
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- Title(s)
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- Lake Geneva
- Date
- No date
- Medium
- Pen and ink, grey wash
- Dimensions
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- image height 257mm,
- image width 699mm
- Support
- paper watermarked “J WHATMAN 1813”
- Mount
- mounted by the artist
- Inscription
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- sheet, verso
- “Savoy side of the Lake of Geneva / [. . .]ng by Fr.Towne JWA”
- Object Type
- Monochrome wash
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- Versions
- On Lake Geneva towards Savoy
- Catalogue Number
- FT833
- Description Sources
- Witt Library (image); Spink records
Provenance
In the collection of Theodore Besterman (1904–1976) before it was on sale at Spink in 1982. It was offered for sale at Sotheby’s on 21 November 1985, lot 172. Spink owned it in spring 1987.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Untraced
- Spink & Son, London, 1987
- Sotheby's, London, London, 21 November 1985
lot 172 - Spink & Son, London, London, 1982
- Theodore Besterman
- Untraced
- Exhibition History
- English Watercolour Drawings Annual Exhibition 1982, Spink, 1982, no. 4
Other entries in John White Abbott
John White Abbott
The Alps near the Source of the Rhine, descending Mount Splugen
The Alps near the Source of the Rhine, descending Mount Splugen
John White Abbott
From the Head of Lake Geneva, looking towards Montreux and the Castle of Chillon
From the Head of Lake Geneva, looking towards Montreux and the Castle of Chillon
John White Abbott
The Head of Lake Geneva, looking towards Montreux and the Castle of Chillon
The Head of Lake Geneva, looking towards Montreux and the Castle of Chillon
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Comment
This is a copy of an otherwise unknown drawing by Towne (FT378). The subject is close to Towne’s other panoramic view of the lake (FT374, FT375, FT376), which White Abbott also copied (FT832).