- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- Two Miles from Rome going out at the Porta Pia
- View in the Campagna
- Date
- 1780/10/26
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and grey ink, watercolour
- Dimensions
-
- image width 209mm,
- image length 417mm
- Support
- two sheets of laid paper with a watermark of a fleur de lis within a coronet
- Mount
- mounted by the artist
- Inscription
-
- sheet, recto, lower right
- “F.Towne delt. / Rome. Octr. 26 1780 No.5”
- in black ink
- Inscription
-
- artist's mount, verso
- “No.5 2 Miles from Rome going out at the Porta Pia / from 10 O Clock till 1 O Clock / Francis Towne delt. / Rome Octr.26 1780 [the date inscribed over the earlier scratched-out “Octr. 26th. 1780.”]”
- in black ink
- Object Type
- Watercolour
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- Collection
-
- (Nn,2.5)
- Catalogue Number
- FT175
- 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.2.05)
- Associated People & Organisations
- British Museum, London, 1816, Nn.2.05
- James White (1744 - 1825), Exeter, 1816
- 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. 138 as 'Going out of Porta Pia, Rome'
- Das Aquarell 1400-1950, Haus der Kunst, 1972, no. 142
- Light, time, legacy: Francis Towne’s watercolours of Rome, British Museum, 2016
- 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. 109
- Adrian Bury, Francis Towne - Lone Star of Water-Colour Painting, Charles Skilton: London, 1962, p. 123
- Paul Oppé, 'Francis Towne, Landscape Painter', The Walpole Society: London, 1920, p. 109
- Keith Roberts, 'Review: 1974 exhibition at Kenwood', The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, No. 857, Burlington Magazine Publications Ltd: London, 1974, p. 491
Footnotes
- 1 Richard Wilson, Via Nomentana, 1750s (Ford 1951).
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