- Description
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- Title(s)
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- The Bay of Naples
- Date
- No date
- Medium
- Pen and grey ink, grey wash
- Dimensions
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- image height 300mm,
- image length 940mm
- Support
- two sheets of paper watermarked “J WHATMAN 1813”
- Inscription
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- sheet, verso
- “Naples / Vesuvius – Mount Lactarius – St. Martin & Castle St. Elmo / F.T.JWA”
- Object Type
- Monochrome wash
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- Collection
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- (D.2001.6)
- Versions
- The Bay of Naples, Fitzwilliam Fitzwilliam Museum
- Catalogue Number
- FT814
- Description Sources
- Examination; Sotheby’s records (image)
Provenance
Descended through the White Abbott family until sold at Sotheby’s on 21 March 2001, lot 171, for £5,000 to the present owner, the Whitworth Gallery, Manchester.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Manchester Museum & the Whitworth, University of Manchester, Manchester, 21 March 2001, GBP 5000, D.2001.6
- Sotheby's, London, London, 21 March 2001, lot 171
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Comment
This is a copy of FT230 and a lost sheet that comprised the left part of the panorama.