- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- A View taken at Geneva where the Rhone comes from the Lake under the Bridge
- Date
- 1780
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and black ink, watercolour, gum
- Dimensions
-
- image width 208mm,
- image length 272mm
- Mount
- mounted by the artist
- Inscription
-
- sheet, recto
- lower left “F.Towne.delt.”
- Inscription
-
- artist's mount, verso
- “No.1 / A View taken at Geneva where the Rhone comes from the Lake under the Bridge drawn on the Spot by / Francis Towne / 1780[in dark brown ink] / evening sun from the left Hand”
- Object Type
- Watercolour
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- Collection
-
- (Nn,2.1)
- Catalogue Number
- FT165
- Description Sources
- Author's examination of the object
Provenance
Bequeathed by the artist in 1816 to James White of Exeter (1744–1825), who gave it in 1816 to the present owner, the British Museum, London (1972.U.599/Nn,1.1a).
- Associated People & Organisations
- British Museum
- James White (1744 - 1825)
- Exhibition History
- [?] Exhibition of Original Drawings at the Gallery, No.20 Lower Brook Street, Grosvenor Square, 20 Lower Brook Street, 1805, no. 102 as 'A View at Geneva'
- Francis Towne, Tate Gallery; Leeds City Art Gallery, 24 June 1997 - 4 January 1998, no. 15
- Light, time, legacy: Francis Towne’s watercolours of Rome, British Museum, 2016
- 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. 198
- Adrian Bury, Francis Towne - Lone Star of Water-Colour Painting, Charles Skilton: London, 1962, pp. 31, 73, 123
- Paul Oppé, 'Francis Towne, Landscape Painter', The Walpole Society: London, 1920, p. 109
Other entries in The Journey to Rome, September 1780
Francis Towne
A View taken at Geneva where the Rhone comes from the Lake under the Bridge
A View taken at Geneva where the Rhone comes from the Lake under the Bridge
Francis Towne
A View at Geneva near where the Arve falls into the Rhone
A View at Geneva near where the Arve falls into the Rhone
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Comment
This is a view from the window of the inn Les Balances d’Or, where Towne probably stayed. Towne’s friend William Jackson drew the same view on his visit to Geneva in 1785 with James White (see FT893).