- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- Tivoli
- Tivoli from below the waterfalls
- Date
- 1781
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and grey ink, watercolour with gum
- Dimensions
-
- image width 249mm,
- image length 393mm
- Mount
- mounted by the artist
- Inscription
-
- sheet, recto, lower left
- “F.Towne / delt / 1781”
- the year added later
- Inscription
-
- artist's mount, verso
- “No7 Italy / Tivoli / drawn on the Spot / by / Francis Towne / [date scratched out] 1781”,
- the year in dark brown ink
- Object Type
- Watercolour
-
- Collection
-
- (Nn,2.15)
- Catalogue Number
- FT252
- Description Sources
- Examination; Museum records (image)
Provenance
Bequeathed by the artist in 1816 to James White of Exeter (1744–1825) and given by him in 1816 to the present owner, the British Museum (Nn.2.15).
- Associated People & Organisations
- British Museum, London, 1816, Nn,2.15
- James White (1744 - 1825), Exeter, 1816
- 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. 199
- Adrian Bury, Francis Towne - Lone Star of Water-Colour Painting, Charles Skilton: London, 1962, p. 124
- Paul Oppé, 'Francis Towne, Landscape Painter', The Walpole Society: London, 1920, p. 112
Other entries in Italy Series, April to June 1781
Francis Towne
Thirteen Miles on the Road from Rome to Tivoli
Thirteen Miles on the Road from Rome to Tivoli
Francis Towne
A View of Rocca di Papa with Part of the Convent
A View of Rocca di Papa with Part of the Convent
Francis Towne
A View of the Spot where Hannibal is said to have looked at Rome
A View of the Spot where Hannibal is said to have looked at Rome
Francis Towne
A View of the Spot from which Hannibal is said to have looked at Rome
A View of the Spot from which Hannibal is said to have looked at Rome
Francis Towne
Monte Porzio Catone from the Park of the Villa Mondragone at Frascati
Monte Porzio Catone from the Park of the Villa Mondragone at Frascati
Francis Towne
Blasted Pine Tree in the Villa Mondragone, Frascati
Blasted Pine Tree in the Villa Mondragone, Frascati
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Comment
This is a distant view of Tivoli made apparently on the Via Tiburtina.
Like FT253 and FT269 this drawing has clearly been very substantially worked on long after 1781 and probably in or after 1794.