- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- Landscape Fragment
- Date
- ca. 1780 - 1781
- Medium
- Pencil, watercolour
- Dimensions
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- image width 324mm,
- image length 139mm
- Inscription
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- sheet, verso
- “No.23”
- in brown ink
- Object Type
- Watercolour
-
- Collection
- Catalogue Number
- FT262
- Description Sources
- Examination; Museum records (image)
Provenance
Bequeathed by the artist in 1816 to James White of Exeter (1744–1825), by whom it was given the same year to the present owner, the British Museum (1972.U.616).
- Associated People & Organisations
- British Museum, London, 1816, 1972,U.616
- James White (1744 - 1825), Exeter, 1816
Footnotes
- 1 Binyon 1907.
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Comment
The drawing is not recorded by Binyon,1 but there is a note on the verso, perhaps in the hand of J. T. “Antiquity” Smith (1766–1833), the curator who first catalogued the drawings, that the sheet was “inserted in Page 19”, presumably a reference to one of the albums in which Towne’s drawings were presented to the British Museum in 1816.
The drawing seems to be a view of the countryside near Rome, with mountains in the distance. Possibly it is the entrance to the Arco Oscuro tunnel.