- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- Near the Arco Oscuro
- Date
- 1780/11/29
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and light and dark grey inks, watercolour
- Dimensions
-
- image width 471mm,
- image length 314mm
- Support
- laid paper with a horizontal crease along its centre
- Mount
- mounted by the artist
- Inscription
-
- sheet, recto, lower right
- “F.Towne. delt / Rome. Novr. 29. 1780 / No17”
- in brown ink
- Inscription
-
- artist's mount, verso
- “No.17 / Near the Arco Scuro [“Novr. 29. 1780” scratched out] / Rome Francis Towne delt.”
- in brown ink
- Inscription
-
- sheet, verso
- indistinct
- in brown ink
- Object Type
- Watercolour
-
- Collection
-
- (Nn,2.23)
- Catalogue Number
- FT187
- Description Sources
- Author's examination of the object
Provenance
Bequeathed by the artist in 1816 to James White of Exeter (1744–1825), who gave it in 1816 to the present owner, the British Museum, London (Nn.2.23).
- Associated People & Organisations
- British Museum
- James White (1744 - 1825)
- Exhibition History
- [?] Exhibition of Original Drawings at the Gallery, No.20 Lower Brook Street, Grosvenor Square, 20 Lower Brook Street, 1805, no. 154, 155 or 156 as Near the Arco Oscuro
- unidentified exhibition, British Museum, 1934, no. 297
- unidentified exhibition, British Museum, 1981
- Light, time, legacy: Francis Towne’s watercolours of Rome, British Museum, 2016
- Bibliography
- Laurence Binyon, Catalogue of Drawings by British Artists and Artists of Foreign Origin Working in Great Britain Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, Trustees of the British Museum: London, 1907, p. 200
- Adrian Bury, Francis Towne - Lone Star of Water-Colour Painting, Charles Skilton: London, 1962, p. 124
- Timothy Wilcox, Francis Towne, Tate Publishing: London, 1997, pp. 62, 67
Footnotes
- 1 No.80 in Hornsby 2002.
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