- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- A View of the Junction of the Two Rhines
- Date
- 1789
- Medium
- Pencil, watercolour
- Dimensions
-
- image width 403mm,
- image length 554mm
- Mount
- mounted by the artist
- Inscription
-
- sheet, recto
- signed and twice dated “1789”
- Inscription
-
- artist's mount, verso
- “A View of the Junction of the two Rhynes taken between Tusis and Coire in the Grisons”
- and dated
- Object Type
- Watercolour
-
- Versions
- Two Rhines
- Catalogue Number
- FT559
- Description Sources
- Christie's records (image)
Provenance
This was commissioned by John Short of Bickham on 6 February 1788. It was offered for sale by the executors of the Montague Meyer family collection at Christie’s on 18 June 1980, lot 68c, where it did not sell, but was sold at Christie’s on 17 November 1981, lot 108, for £4,200 to Both (perhaps a pseudonym?), whereafter it is untraced.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Untraced
- Christie's, London, London, 17 November 1981, GBP 4200, lot 108
Sold to Both (perhaps a pseudonym?), whereafter it is untraced. - Christie's, London, London, 18 June 1980, lot 68c
Unsold - Montague Meyer ( - 1961), June 1980
- John Jeffrey Short (1753 - 1801), Bickham, Minehead, Somerset, 6 February 1788
- Bibliography
- William Coxe, Travels in Switzerland in a Series of Letters to William Melmouth Esq, T. Cadell: London, 1789, vol 3, pp. 182-183
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Much Wenlock, Shropshire, with the Ruins of the Priory Church
Much Wenlock, Shropshire, with the Ruins of the Priory Church
Francis Towne
The Wrekin, on the Road between Much Wenlock and Shrewsbury
The Wrekin, on the Road between Much Wenlock and Shrewsbury
Francis Towne
A View going from the Head of Lake Como over Mount Splugen
A View going from the Head of Lake Como over Mount Splugen
Francis Towne
The Campagna near Rome looking towards the Sabine Mountains
The Campagna near Rome looking towards the Sabine Mountains
Francis Towne
A View of Loreto with Part of the Adriatic Sea
A View of Loreto with Part of the Adriatic Sea
Francis Towne
A View near the Arco Scuro Looking towards the Villa Medici
A View near the Arco Scuro Looking towards the Villa Medici
Francis Towne
An Evening View from Mount Palatine looking towards Mount Aventine
An Evening View from Mount Palatine looking towards Mount Aventine
Francis Towne
A View on the Banks of the Tiber near Monte Milvio
A View on the Banks of the Tiber near Monte Milvio
Francis Towne
A View of the Temple of Venus looking towards the Island of Nisida
A View of the Temple of Venus looking towards the Island of Nisida
Francis Towne
Chateau de Glerolles, near Vevey on Lake Geneva
Chateau de Glerolles, near Vevey on Lake Geneva
Francis Towne
Abbey Valley Crucis, near Llangollen on the River Dee, North Wales
Abbey Valley Crucis, near Llangollen on the River Dee, North Wales
Francis Towne
A View on the Banks of the Dee above Llangollen
A View on the Banks of the Dee above Llangollen
Francis Towne
A View of the Bay of Naples with the Island of Capri
A View of the Bay of Naples with the Island of Capri
Footnotes
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Comment
This is a view of Reichenau, based on FT364. Cozens also drew the view.1 According to Oppé’s note (see FT364), this drawing was commissioned by John Short of Bickham on 6 February 1788, and as it was put on sale in 1980 with another (FT558) commissioned by Short, a third, FT586, may also have been commissioned by him.
William Coxe described the scene thus: