- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- The Temple of Concord
- Date
- 1781/07
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and black ink, watercolour with gum
- Dimensions
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- image width 321mm,
- image length 474mm
- Support
- laid paper watermarked "J WHATMAN", with a vertical crease down its centre
- Mount
- mounted by the artist
- Inscription
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- sheet, recto, lower left
- “No.44. Rome / F.Towne. delt. [“1781” scratched out]”
- in brown ink
- Inscription
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- artist's mount, verso
- “No44, Rome / A View of the Temple of Concord / drawn on the Spot / by / Francis Towne. / [scratched-out indistinct date, including “July” and possibly “1st” or “7th July 1781”] / Of the temple of concord, eight Ionic Pillars of Oriental Granate, are / still standing behind the Capitol towards mount Palatine. It was / built as a Monument of the Reconciliation, between the People & the / Nobility of Rome.”
- in brown ink
- Object Type
- Watercolour
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- Collection
-
- (Nn,1.17)
- Catalogue Number
- FT214
- 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.1.17).
- 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. 161 as 'Temple of Concord'
- British Artists in Europe, Whitworth Art Gallery, 1973, no. 7
- unidentified exhibition, British Museum, 1981
- unidentified exhibition, Nottingham, 1981
- Francis Towne, Tate Gallery; Leeds City Art Gallery, 24 June 1997 - 4 January 1998, no. 31
- Light, time, legacy: Francis Towne’s watercolours of Rome, British Museum, 2016
- Bibliography
- Thomas Ashby, Forty drawings of Roman scenes by British artists (1715-1850) from originals in the British Museum, British Museum: London, 1911, p.13
- 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. 201
- Adrian Bury, Francis Towne - Lone Star of Water-Colour Painting, Charles Skilton: London, 1962, pp. 105, 126
- Paul Oppé, 'Francis Towne, Landscape Painter', The Walpole Society: London, 1920, p 113
Other entries in Rome Series, October 1780–July 1781
Francis Towne
Two Miles from Rome going out at the Porta Pia
Two Miles from Rome going out at the Porta Pia
Francis Towne
Part of the Ancient Roman Wall between Porta Salara and Porta Pinciana
Part of the Ancient Roman Wall between Porta Salara and Porta Pinciana
Francis Towne
Two Miles from Rome, going out at Porta Salara
Two Miles from Rome, going out at Porta Salara
Francis Towne
Near the Arco Scuro, looking into the Villa Borghese
Near the Arco Scuro, looking into the Villa Borghese
Francis Towne
A Sepulchre by the Road between Rome and the Ponte Nomentana
A Sepulchre by the Road between Rome and the Ponte Nomentana
Francis Towne
The Old Wall of Rome at the back of the Villa Medici
The Old Wall of Rome at the back of the Villa Medici
Francis Towne
St Maria Nuova with the Temple of Venus and Rome
St Maria Nuova with the Temple of Venus and Rome
Francis Towne
The Temple of Vesta and the Temple of Fortuna Virilis
The Temple of Vesta and the Temple of Fortuna Virilis
Francis Towne
Going out from the Porta Pia, looking towards the Sabine Mountains
Going out from the Porta Pia, looking towards the Sabine Mountains
Footnotes
- 1 A similar view by John “Warwick” Smith is in the British Museum.
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Comment
The Temple of Concord lies at the north end of the Forum and was one of the most popular ruins for artists to depict.1 The tall white building to the right is the Capitoline Museum. The Temple of Concord is also visible in the left corner of FT219.