- Description
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- Creator
- Unidentified circle of Towne
- Title(s)
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- Landscape Composition, after Annibale Carraci
- The Road to the Lake
- Date
- No date
- Medium
- Pencil, watercolour
- Dimensions
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- image height 275mm,
- image width 213mm,
- sheet height 405mm,
- sheet width 322mm
- Support
- medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Mount
- fleur-de-lis watermark (similar to Heawood 1849)
- Object Type
- Watercolour
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- Collection
- Catalogue Number
- FT865
- Description Sources
- Examination; Museum records (image)
Provenance
Untraced until 1 May 1964 when purchased from Agnew’s for £60 (as by John White Abbott) by Paul Mellon (1907–1999) who gave it to the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven (B1975.4.982; gift to Yale, 1975).
- Associated People & Organisations
- Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1975, B1975.4.982
- Mr Paul Mellon (1907 - 1999), 1 May 1964, GBP 60
- Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 1964
Other entries in Other Pupils, unidentified
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Unidentified circle of Towne
Landscape Composition, after Annibale Carraci
Landscape Composition, after Annibale Carraci
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Comment
This composition derives from Landscape Composition 27E etched by Massi after Annibale Carraci, which Miss Maingey also drew (FT854). In both copies the pupils have taken only the left portion of the drawing, which is itself somewhat at variance from Massi’s etching. Therefore their direct source cannot have been the etching itself but a landscape composition by Towne, based partly on the etching (now lost, FT854a).