- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- A View of Tivoli
- View of Tivoli, from the neighbouring hills
- Date
- 1781/05
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and black and grey inks, watercolour
- Dimensions
-
- image width 387mm,
- image length 504mm
- Mount
- mounted by the artist
- Inscription
-
- sheet, recto, lower right
- “No31 / Francis Towne delt / 1781”
- Inscription
-
- artist's mount, verso
- “No31 Italy / A View of Tivoli drawn on the Spot / May 1781 Francis Towne”
- in dark brown ink
- Object Type
- Watercolour
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- Collection
-
- (Nn,3.9)
- Catalogue Number
- FT267
- Description Sources
- Examination; Museum records (image)
Provenance
Bequeathed by the artist in 1816 to James White of Exeter (1744–1825), who gave it in 1818 to the present owner, the British Museum (Nn,3.9).
- Associated People & Organisations
- British Museum, London, 1818, Nn,3.9
- James White (1744 - 1825), Exeter, 1816
- 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. 203
- Adrian Bury, Francis Towne - Lone Star of Water-Colour Painting, Charles Skilton: London, 1962, pp. 80, 111, 127
Other entries in Italy Series, April to June 1781
Francis Towne
Thirteen Miles on the Road from Rome to Tivoli
Thirteen Miles on the Road from Rome to Tivoli
Francis Towne
A View of Rocca di Papa with Part of the Convent
A View of Rocca di Papa with Part of the Convent
Francis Towne
A View of the Spot where Hannibal is said to have looked at Rome
A View of the Spot where Hannibal is said to have looked at Rome
Francis Towne
A View of the Spot from which Hannibal is said to have looked at Rome
A View of the Spot from which Hannibal is said to have looked at Rome
Francis Towne
Monte Porzio Catone from the Park of the Villa Mondragone at Frascati
Monte Porzio Catone from the Park of the Villa Mondragone at Frascati
Francis Towne
Blasted Pine Tree in the Villa Mondragone, Frascati
Blasted Pine Tree in the Villa Mondragone, Frascati
Footnotes
- 1 Thomas Jones, Tivoli, 1777 (Sumner & Smith 2003); Jacob More, Tivoli, late 1770s? (Andrew 1993).
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Comment
The same scene, of Tivoli with Rome visible on the horizon, was painted by many artists, including Thomas Jones and Jacob More.1 The Monastery of Sant’Antonio (FT265), featured on the crest of the right-hand hill in Jones’s view, is just beyond the right edge of this picture. The two drawings feature what appears to be the same foreground tree. Another Tivoli view (FT270a) shows some of the same buildings.