- Description
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- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
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- Villa Mellini
- Date
- 1781/07/20
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and grey ink, grey wash
- Dimensions
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- image width 325mm,
- image length 230mm
- Support
- laid paper
- Inscription
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- sheet, verso
- “No50 [the number over “49”]/ Rome / Villa Malini / July 20th. 1781 / drawn on the spot by Francis Towne / evening sun from the left hand”
- in brown ink
- Object Type
- Monochrome wash
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- Catalogue Number
- FT220
- Description Sources
- Author's examination of the object
Information supplied by the owner
Provenance
Bequeathed by the artist in 1816 to James White of Exeter (1744–1825), on whose death it passed to Towne’s residuary legatee John Herman Merivale (1779–1844) and his successors. Merivale’s granddaughters Maria Sophia Merivale (1853–1928) and Judith Ann Merivale (1860–1945), both of Oxford, inherited the drawing in May 1915 (BP26). On 1 March 1935 Judith Merivale sold it to Agnew’s (no.11702) for £8, where it was bought the same day by Mrs Pilkington for £10 (presumably Margaret Pilkington [1891–1974]). It was sold at Sotheby’s, London, on 21 November 1985, lot 58, to Leger Galleries. It was on sale with Lowell Libson in 2009 and has since been acquired by a private collector.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Thomas Agnew & Sons
- Leger Galleries
- Lowell Libson
- John Herman Merivale (1779 - 1844)
- Judith Ann Merivale (1860 - 1945)
- Maria Sophia Merivale (1853 - 1928)
- Mrs Pilkington
- Private Collection
- Sotheby's, London
- James White (1744 - 1825)
- Exhibition History
- Annual Exhibition of Drawings, Thomas Agnew & Sons, 1935, no. 114
- Bibliography
- Timothy Wilcox, Francis Towne, Tate Publishing: London, 1997, p. 78
Footnotes
- 1 Paul Oppé records: notes, ca. 1915.
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