- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- Lake Nemi
- The lake of Nemi
- Date
- 1781
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and black ink, watercolour
- Dimensions
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- image width 395mm,
- image length 509mm
- Mount
- mounted by the artist
- Inscription
-
- sheet, recto, lower right
- “No.64 / Lake of Nemi / Francis Towne delt / 1781.”
- Inscription
-
- artist's mount, verso
- “No.64 Italy / Lake of Nemi / Francis Towne delt / 1781 / Mounted / June 1811.”
- Object Type
- Watercolour
-
- Collection
-
- (Nn,3.4)
- Catalogue Number
- FT291
- Description Sources
- Examination; Wilcox 1997 (image)
Provenance
Bequeathed by the artist in 1816 to James White of Exeter (1744–1825), who gave it in 1818 to the present owner, the British Museum (Nn,3.4).
- Associated People & Organisations
- British Museum, London, 1818, Nn,3.4
- James White (1744 - 1825), Exeter, 1816
- Exhibition History
- unidentified exhibition, British Museum, 1981
- Travels in Italy 1776-1783 based on the Memoirs of Thomas Jones, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 1988, no. 68
- Francis Towne, Tate Gallery; Leeds City Art Gallery, 24 June 1997 - 4 January 1998, no. 34
- Light, time, legacy: Francis Towne’s watercolours of Rome, British Museum, 2016
- Bibliography
- Laurence Binyon, Catalogue of Drawings by British Artists and Artists of Foreign Origin Working in Great Britain Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, Trustees of the British Museum: London, 1907, p. 202
- Adrian Bury, Francis Towne - Lone Star of Water-Colour Painting, Charles Skilton: London, 1962, pp. 80, 111, 127
- Paul Oppé, 'Francis Towne, Landscape Painter', The Walpole Society: London, 1920, p. 112
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