- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- Landscape Composition
- Date
- 1793
- Medium
- Pen and ink, watercolour
- Dimensions
-
- image height 244mm,
- image length 171mm
- Inscription
-
- sheet, recto, lower left
- “Francis Towne / delt 1793”
- Object Type
- Watercolour
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- Catalogue Number
- FT796
- Description Sources
- Christie's records (image)
Provenance
Untraced until acquired by Joseph Hawksley Elliot of Sheffield (d. ca. 1978), whose daughter sold it at Christie’s on 14 March 1978, lot 86, for £2,600 to Spink & Son. On 30 March 1978 Spink sold it for £3,500 to a UK private collector. It was sold at Sotheby’s on 8 July 1982, lot 90, for £3,400, whereafter it is untraced. Probably this is the “Mountainous Landscape” acquired from Bernard Milling by the Fine Art Society (no.4465) and sold on 22 May 1947 to Joseph Hawksley Elliot for £42. It is very likely that Milling acquired it from Judith Merivale or her estate.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Untraced
- Private Collection, 8 July 1982, GBP 3400
- Sotheby's, London, London, 8 July 1982, lot 90
- Spink & Son, London, London, 14 March 1978, GBP 3500
- Christie's, London, London, 14 March 1978, lot 86
- Joseph Hawksley Elliot (1884 - 1978), Sheffield, 1978
- [?] The Fine Art Society, London, London, 22 May 1947, no.4465
- [?] Horace Bernard Milling (1898 - 1954), 1947
- [?] Judith Ann Merivale (1860 - 1945), Oxford, May 1915
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 a later version of a drawing Towne made in 1780 (FT786).