- Description
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- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- Landscape Composition
- Date
- 1777
- Medium
- Pen black ink, grey wash, laid brown paper
- Dimensions
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- image height 147mm,
- image length 194mm
- Support
- laid brown paper, with a washline border drawn around the image
- Inscription
-
- sheet, recto, lower left
- “Francis Towne delt”
- Object Type
- Monochrome wash
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- Collection
-
- (1998.195)
- Catalogue Number
- FT786a
- Description Sources
- Examination; Museum records (image)
Provenance
Untraced until bequeathed by architectural historian Walter Ison (1908–1997) to the current owner, the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (1998.195).
- Associated People & Organisations
- Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1997, 1998.195
- Walter Ison (1908 - 1997), 1997
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Comment
This is an imaginary landscape composition. The group of mounted figures is inspired by Gainsborough’s work of the early 1770s, which are themselves based on Dutch precedents. This is one of a pair of landscapes mounted in the same fashion, both featuring a date and signature below the image, as was Towne’s occasional habit in the pre-Italian period (other examples are FT029 and FT031).