- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- View of a Hermitage and Rocca del Papa
- Date
- 1781
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and grey ink, grey wash
- Dimensions
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- image width 245mm,
- image length 370mm
- Support
- wove paper
- Inscription
-
- verso
- "A View of a Hermitage & Rocca del Papa / Francis Towne / 1781" in brown ink
- Object Type
- Monochrome wash
-
- Catalogue Number
- FT280
- Description Sources
- Examination (image); Agnew's records
Provenance
Untraced until 10 May 1940 when it was bought by Agnew’s (no.3080) for £4 from G. B. Mountford. On 24 June 1940 it was bought from Agnew’s for £10 by Professor John Malins (1915–1992).
- Associated People & Organisations
- Private Collection
- Professor John Malins (1915 - 1992), 24 June 1040, GBP 10
- Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 10 May 1940, GBP 4, no.3080
- G. B. Mountford
- Bibliography
- Adrian Bury, Francis Towne - Lone Star of Water-Colour Painting, Charles Skilton: London, 1962, p. 150
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Comment
This is a view of Rocca di Papa from the same approach as FT281 and FT282. The building appears not to be the one shown in FT282 but was a former pagan temple, subsequently dedicated to St Peter, around which the convent grew.