- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- Tivoli
- Date
- 1781/05/15
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and grey ink, grey wash
- Dimensions
-
- image width 368mm,
- image length 495mm
- Inscription
-
- sheet, verso
- “1781 May 15 5 o’clock in the morning, light coming from the sun rising over the mountains strong on 4 vapour thin against F of the cascades / second mountain darker than the olive trees, & trunks of the trees dark against the mountains, the herbage of the cave in its lights a / clear bright green olive tree greyer” and numbered “16”
- Object Type
- Monochrome wash
-
- Catalogue Number
- FT258
- Description Sources
- Christie's records (image)
Provenance
Owned by Francis Alexander Gustavus Skardon Douglas (active 1927, d.1957), a descendant of John White Abbott, who sold it on 28 August 1946 to Agnew’s (no.4724). On 17 January 1947 Agnew’s sold it for £100 less £5 commission to Sir William Worsley, Bt (1890–1973), whose family sold it at Christie’s on 20 November 1984, lot 68, for £7,500, whereafter it is untraced.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Untraced
- Private Collection, 20 November 1984, GBP 7500
- Christie's, London, London, 20 November 1984, lot 68
- Sir William Worsley (1890 - 1973), 17 January 1947, GBP 100
- Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 28 August 1946, no.4724
- Francis Alexander Gustavus Skardon Douglas (active 1927 - 1957)
- John White Abbott (1763 - 1851)
- Exhibition History
- Watercolours by Francis Towne, City Art Gallery, 1950, no. 14
- Three Centuries of British Water-colours, Arts Council, 1951, no. 187
- Early English Water Colours, Leeds City Art Gallery, 8 October 1958 to 23 November 1958, no. 98
- Bibliography
- Adrian Bury, Francis Towne - Lone Star of Water-Colour Painting, Charles Skilton: London, 1962, p. 142
- Timothy Wilcox, Francis Towne, Tate Publishing: London, 1997, pp. 73, 86
- Sir William Worsley, Early English Water-Colours at Hovingham Hall: 1963, p. 11
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
Towne drew another Tivoli drawing “from 3 o clock till 6” (FT261) on the same day that he made this sketch.