- Description
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- Title(s)
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- The Head of Lake Geneva from Vevey
- Date
- No date
- Medium
- Pen and grey ink, blue and grey washes
- Dimensions
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- image height 255mm,
- image width 1115mm
- Support
- four sheets of paper
- Inscription
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- sheet, verso
- “The Head of the Lake of Geneva from Vevey.F.T.JWA”
- Object Type
- Monochrome wash
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- Catalogue Number
- FT832
- Description Sources
- Examination; Sotheby’s records (image)
Provenance
Descended through the White Abbott family until sold at Sotheby’s on 21st March 2001, lot 172, for £3,500. It is thereafter untraced.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Untraced
- Sotheby's, London, London, 21 March 2001, lot 172
- Exhibition History
- Three Exeter Artists of the Eighteenth Century: Francis Hayman RA, Francis Towne, John White Abbott, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, 1951, no. 132
- Bibliography
- Timothy Wilcox, Francis Towne, Tate Publishing: London, 1997, p. 99
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Comment
This is a copy of Towne’s three-part panoramic view of Lake Geneva dated 11 September 1781 (FT374, FT375, FT376).