- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- Hadrian's Villa
- Date
- 1781/05/22
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and black ink, watercolour
- Dimensions
-
- image width 153mm,
- image length 215mm
- Support
- the paper with a partial watermark of a coronet within a bracket design
- Inscription
-
- sheet, verso
- “No.41 / May 22. 1781. Villa / Adriana. Light coming / on the left-hand side. / Francis Towne”
- Object Type
- Watercolour
-
- Catalogue Number
- FT273
- Description Sources
- Examination; Christie's records (image)
Provenance
Untraced until identified in the collection of Selwyn Image (1849–1930) by Oppé in 1920. It was sold at Christie’s on 20 November 1953, lot 29 (a pair with FT274), for £124 5s. (for the pair) to Agnew’s (no.7285 or 7286), who bought it on behalf of Sir William Worsley, Bt (1890–1973). According to Christie’s in 2013, Agnew’s paid 185 guineas at the 1953 sale and sold it to Worsley for 190 guineas. Worsley’s family offered it for sale unsuccessfully at Christie’s on 5 June 2003, lot 43, and eventually sold it at Christie’s on 2 July 2013, lot 36, for £6,875.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Christie's, London, London, 2 August 2013, lot 36
- Christie's, London, London, 5 June 2003, lot 43
Unsold - Sir William Worsley (1890 - 1973), 20 November 1953
- Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 20 November 1953, GBP 124.5s, no.7285 or 7286
- Christie's, London, London, 20 November 1953, lot 29
offered as a pair with FT274 - Selwyn Image (1849 - 1930), 1920
- Private Collection, 2 July 2013, GBP 6875
- Exhibition History
- Early English Water Colours, Leeds City Art Gallery, 8 October 1958 to 23 November 1958, no. 92
- Bibliography
- Adrian Bury, Francis Towne - Lone Star of Water-Colour Painting, Charles Skilton: London, 1962, pp. 95, 143
- Paul Oppé, 'Francis Towne, Landscape Painter', The Walpole Society: London, 1920, p. 111
- Timothy Wilcox, Francis Towne, Tate Publishing: London, 1997, p. 58
- Sir William Worsley, Early English Water-Colours at Hovingham Hall: 1963, p. 13
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
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