- Description
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- Title(s)
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- The Alps near the Source of the Rhine, descending Mount Splugen
- Date
- No date
- Medium
- Pen and ink, grey and blue wash
- Dimensions
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- image height 217mm,
- image width 210mm
- Inscription
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- sheet, recto
- “Snow” on mountain peak
- Inscription
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- artist's mount, verso
- “The Alps near the source of the Rhine / descending Mount Splugen. Light L / FT JWA”
- Object Type
- Monochrome wash
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- Collection
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- (E.2-1948)
- Versions
- Near the Source of the Rhine
- Catalogue Number
- FT828
- Description Sources
- Examination; 1997 Tate catalogue (image)
Provenance
Sold by the artist’s great-granddaughter Rosetta Frances Dobson (1892–1965) to Agnew’s (no.2605) on 3 December 1937 among a group of twenty-five John White Abbott drawings (including FT818, FT833c, FT835). Agnew’s sold it on 27 April 1938 to Henry Herbert Harrod (d.1945), who bequeathed it to its present owner, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (E.2-1948).
- Associated People & Organisations
- Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1948, E.2-1948
- Henry Herbert Harrod (1870 - 1945), 27 April 1938
- Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 3 December 1937, no.2605
- Rosetta Frances Dobson (1892 - 1965), 1937
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Comment
This is a copy of FT332, with the top of the mountain and the clouds taken from Towne’s outline on the verso of FT331.