- Description
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- Creator
- M. Ann Johnson after Francis Towne
- Title(s)
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- Classical Landscape
- Date
- 1793
- Medium
- Watercolour
- Support
- paper watermarked “[P]ORTAL”
- Mount
- laid on a contemporary mount (now cut down)
- Inscription
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- artist's mount, verso
- “M.Ann Johnson / delt. 1793 / from a drawing / of / F. Towne’s”
- in brown ink in Towne’s hand
- Object Type
- Watercolour
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- Catalogue Number
- FT900
- Description Sources
- Examination
Provenance
Untraced until sold by Lacy Scott & Knight of Bury St Edmunds, 11 June 2011, lot 396.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Private Collection, 11 June 2011, GBP 141.60
- Lacy Scott & Knight, Bury St Edmunds, 11 June 2011, lot 396
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Comment
This is a copy after a lost drawing by Towne (FT904). It looks like it was copied from a studio work, as the detailing in the figures, and on the tower behind them, is more deliberate and detailed than in Towne’s sketches. The way the tree trunks are clustered is reminiscent of the Villa Barberini (FT223).