- Description
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- Title(s)
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- Temple of Peace, Rome
- Date
- 1795
- Medium
- Watercolour
- Dimensions
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- image height 178mm,
- image length 241mm
- Inscription
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- sheet, recto, lower left
- “F.Towne / delt 1795”
- in dark grey ink
- Object Type
- Watercolour
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- Catalogue Number
- FT585a
- Description Sources
- Gorringes website (image)
Provenance
Untraced until offered for sale at Gorringe’s on 25 February 2015, lot 1173.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Gorringes
- Untraced
- Richard Wilson (1713/14 - 1782)
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Comment
This watercolour is based on an etching by Michael Angelo Rooker after Richard Wilson, which was published in 1776, among the 'Twelve Original Views in Italy'.