Description
Creator
John White Abbott (1763 - 1851) after Francis Towne
Title(s)
  • Lake Maggiore
Date
No date
Medium
Pen and ink, monochrome wash
Dimensions
  • image height 274mm,
  • image length 521mm
Object Type
Monochrome wash

Catalogue Number
FT831a
Description Sources
Christie's records

Provenance

Offered for sale at Christie’s on 25 April 1995, lot 15.

Associated People & Organisations

Untraced
Christie's, London, London, 25 April 1995, lot 15

Comment

Though not sold as such in 1995, stylistically this has the characteristics of a copy after Towne’s continental work and fits perfectly as the right-hand section of a panoramic view of Lake Maggiore, next to FT350.

 

by Richard Stephens

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