- Description
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- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- Landscape Composition
- Date
- No date
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and black ink, watercolour
- Dimensions
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- image height 156mm,
- image width 156mm
- Inscription
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- sheet, recto, lower right
- “F.Towne / delt”
- Object Type
- Watercolour
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- Catalogue Number
- FT792
- Description Sources
- Examination (image)
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. It descended through the Merivale family until 2008, when it was sold to a dealer.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Untraced
- John Herman Merivale (1779 - 1844), 1825
- James White (1744 - 1825), Exeter, 1816
Other entries in Compositions and Copies, 1782–95
Francis Towne, Claude Lorrain
A Memory of Lord Ashburnham’s Claude
A Memory of Lord Ashburnham’s Claude
Francis Towne, Rosa Salvator
Study in the Style of Salvator Rosa
Study in the Style of Salvator Rosa
Francis Towne, Rosa Salvator
Study in the Style of Salvator Rosa
Study in the Style of Salvator Rosa
Francis Towne, Rosa Salvator
Study in the Style of Salvator Rosa
Study in the Style of Salvator Rosa
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Comment
This is an imaginary landscape composition known in two copies by pupils (FT839, FT845), one of which was drawn in or around August 1790. Most of the colour is brown wash, with dashes of other colours.