- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- An Evening View from Mount Palatine looking towards Mount Aventine
- Date
- 1785
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and grey ink, watercolour
- Dimensions
-
- image width 320mm,
- image length 472mm
- Mount
- mounted by the artist
- Inscription
-
- sheet, recto, lower left
- “Francis Towne delt. 1785”
- Inscription
-
- artist's mount, verso
- “No.3. An evening view, from Mount Palatine / looking towards mount Aventine / Drawn by Francis Towne.”
- Object Type
- Watercolour
-
- Collection
- Catalogue Number
- FT426
- Description Sources
- Examination; Museum records (image)
Provenance
Commissioned by Thomas Snow of Cleve (1748–1832) and sold in 1952 by his great-great-granddaughter, Beatrice Stella Llewellyn of Tavistock and Sloane Court, London SW3 (b. 1893), to the present owner, the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery, Exeter, 1952, 78/1952/1
- Beatrice Stella Llewellyn (1893), London
- Thomas Snow (1748 - 1832), 1985
- Exhibition History
- Treasures of the Exeter Museums: Centenary Exhibition, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, 1969, no. 130
- Paintings and Drawings by Francis Towne and John White Abbott in the collection of Exeter Museums and Art Gallery, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, 1971, no. 5
- Francis Towne & John White Abbott: Paintings and Watercolours from the Exeter Museums and Art Gallery, Marble Hill House, 1973, no. 5
- Bibliography
- Adrian Bury, Francis Towne - Lone Star of Water-Colour Painting, Charles Skilton: London, 1962, p. 133
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