- Description
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- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
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- Castello Madamo
- Date
- 1781/04/22
- Medium
- Pencil, brown sepia ink, watercolour
- Dimensions
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- image width 224mm,
- image length 316mm
- Support
- paper with a fragmentary watermark
- Inscription
-
- sheet, verso
- signed, numbered “2”, dated “22nd April 1781”
- Object Type
- Watercolour
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- Catalogue Number
- FT247
- Description Sources
- Examination; Christie's records (image)
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 (BP5) and they gave it in December 1921 to their niece Dorothea, Lady Bunbury (b.1888, née Merivale; see also 80), who sold it on 10 May 1946 with 80 to Agnew’s (no.4614) for £30. On 15 July 1946 Agnew’s sold it for £40 to Charles Richard Nairne Routh (1896–1976), who sold it back to Agnew’s (no.6003) on 27 July 1949, where on 5 August 1959 it was bought for £120 less £6 (for 125 guineas according to Christie’s) by Sir William Worsley, Bt (1890–1973), whose family sold it at Christie’s on 5 June 2003, lot 38, for £16,730 including fees. The London dealer Andrew Clayton-Payne was offering it for sale “from a Distinguished Private Collection” in July 2014.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Private Collection
- Andrew Clayton-Payne, London, July 2014
- Private Collection, 5 June 2003, GBP 16730
- Christie's, London, London, 3 June 2003, lot 38
- Sir William Worsley (1890 - 1973), London, 5 August 1959, GBP 120
125 guineas according to Christie’s - Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 27 July 1949, no.6003
- Charles Richard Nairne Routh (1896 - 1976), London, 15 July 1946, GBP 40
- Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 10 May 1946, GBP 30, no.4614
Acquired with FT080 - Lady Dorothy Bunbury (1888), December 1921
- Judith Ann Merivale (1860 - 1945), Oxford, May 1915, BP5
- Maria Sophia Merivale (1853 - 1928), Oxford, May 1915, BP5
- John Herman Merivale (1779 - 1844), 1825
- James White (1744 - 1825), Exeter, 1816
- Exhibition History
- Watercolours by Francis Towne, City Art Gallery, 1950, no. 18
- English Watercolours from Four Yorkshire Houses 1660-1860, Scarborough Art Gallery, 1950, no. 11
- Bibliography
- Adrian Bury, Francis Towne - Lone Star of Water-Colour Painting, Charles Skilton: London, 1962, p. 142
- Sir William Worsley, Early English Water-Colours at Hovingham Hall: 1963, p. 11
Other entries in Italy Series, April to June 1781
Thirteen Miles on the Road from Rome to Tivoli
A View of Rocca di Papa with Part of the Convent
A View of the Spot where Hannibal is said to have looked at Rome
A View of the Spot from which Hannibal is said to have looked at Rome
Monte Porzio Catone from the Park of the Villa Mondragone at Frascati
Blasted Pine Tree in the Villa Mondragone, Frascati
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Comment
This is another view of Castello Madamo, somewhat nearer the town than the first one (FT246).