- Description
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- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
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- Landscape Composition
- Date
- 1777
- Medium
- Pen black ink, grey wash, laid brown paper
- Dimensions
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- image height 150mm,
- image length 193mm
- Support
- laid brown paper, with a washline border drawn around the image
- Inscription
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- sheet, recto, lower left
- “Francis Towne delt”
- Inscription
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- sheet, recto, lower centre
- “1777”
- Object Type
- Monochrome wash
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- Collection
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- (1998.196)
- Catalogue Number
- FT786b
- Description Sources
- Museum records (image)
Provenance
Untraced until bequeathed by architectural historian Walter Ison (1908–1997) to the current owner, the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (1998.196).
- Associated People & Organisations
- Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1997, 1998.195
- Walter Ison (1908 - 1997), 1997
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Comment
This is another landscape composition with the same date and washline border as FT786a.