- Description
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- Title(s)
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- Landscape
- Date
- 1790/08/14
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and black ink, grey wash, with grey wash border
- Dimensions
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- image height 198mm,
- image width 290mm
- Part of
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- Miss Maingey: An Album of Landscape Copies
- Object Type
- Monochrome wash
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- Collection
- Catalogue Number
- FT850
- Description Sources
- Examination
Provenance
Untraced until acquired by Iolo Aneurin Williams (1890–1962) by 1952, and sold by a member of his family at Sotheby’s on 31 March 1999, lot 37, for £1,100 to the present owner within a sketchbook containing FT843 to FT854.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Private Collection, 31 March 1999, GBP 1100
- Sotheby's, London, London, 31 March 1999, lot 37
- Iolo Anuerin Williams (1890 - 1962), 1952
- Bibliography
- Iolo Aneurin Williams, Early English Watercolours, and some cognate drawings by artists not later than 1785, Connoisseur: London, 1952, p. 90
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Comment
This drawing, which appears on folio 8 (recto) of the sketchbook, is a copy of plate 79 of Liber Veritatis, vol.1, etched by Richard Earlom after Claude Lorrain. However, it seems likely that Miss Maingey’s immediate source was a drawing that Towne made from the etching, given the presence of Towne’s characteristic pen line throughout. In fact, perhaps Towne applied some of the light grey outline in the mid-ground tree just behind the cattle herders, as it seems decidedly more competent than much of the darker pen work, for example in the bottom-left foreground.