Description
Creator
Miss Maingey (active 1791) after Francis Towne
Title(s)
  • Landscape Composition
Date
1790/08/14
Medium
Pencil, pen and black ink, grey and brown washes, with grey wash border
Dimensions
  • image height 151mm,
  • image width 234mm
Part of
  • Miss Maingey: An Album of Landscape Copies
Object Type
Watercolour

Collection
Catalogue Number
FT848
Description Sources
Examination

Provenance

Untraced until acquired by Iolo Aneurin Williams (1890–1962) by 1952, and sold by a member of his family at Sotheby’s on 31 March 1999, lot 37, for £1,100 to the present owner within a sketchbook containing FT843 to FT854.

Associated People & Organisations

Private Collection, 31 March 1999, GBP 1100
Sotheby's, London, London, 31 March 1999, lot 37
Iolo Anuerin Williams (1890 - 1962), 1952
Bibliography
Iolo Aneurin Williams, Early English Watercolours, and some cognate drawings by artists not later than 1785, Connoisseur: London, 1952, p. 90

Comment

This drawing, which appears on folio 6 (recto) of the sketchbook, is a copy after a landscape composition by Towne (FT793). The fact that Towne numbered his drawing “1” may be some indication that it was intended for use at or near the start of a course of instruction, as appears to be the case here.

by Richard Stephens

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