Description
Creator
Unidentified circle of Towne
Title(s)
  • Via Mala
Date
No date
Medium
Pencil, pen and brown ink, grey and brown washes, with a few strokes of gouache
Dimensions
  • image height 367mm,
  • image width 232mm
Inscription
  • sheet, recto, lower left
  • “Via / Mala / 1788”
Inscription
  • sheet, recto, upper right
  • “No.27”
Object Type
Monochrome wash

Collection
Catalogue Number
FT879a
Description Sources
Museum records (image)

Provenance

Probably among the group that Yvonne Ffrench acquired from an East Anglian picture dealer. She exhibited it in 1964 and it is now in the collection of Harvard University (Acc. 1979.111).

Associated People & Organisations

Harvard Art Museums / Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA, Acc. 1979.111
[?] Yvonne Ffrench (fl.1933 - 1968)
Exhibition History
Exhibition of Landscapes of the Grand Tour, W.R.Jeudwine and Yvonne Ffrench at the Alpine Club Gallery, 74 South Audley Street, 1964, no. 59

Comment

This is clearly by the same artist as the Yale cascade (FT879) and numbered by the same hand, which intriguingly sets up the possibility that these are fragments of a series of some considerable size.

by Richard Stephens

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