- Description
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- Title(s)
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- The Isle of Capri
- Date
- No date
- Medium
- Pen and grey ink, grey and blue washes
- Dimensions
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- image height 310mm,
- image length 630mm
- Support
- paper watermarked “J WHATMAN 1813”
- Inscription
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- sheet, verso
- “Naples, The Island of Capria. Evening.. F.T.JWA”
- Object Type
- Monochrome wash
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- Versions
- The Island of Capri
- Catalogue Number
- FT817
- Description Sources
- Examination; Sotheby’s records (image)
Provenance
Descended within the White Abbott family until sold at Sotheby’s on 21 March 2001, lot 173, for £2,000. It is thereafter untraced.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Untraced
- Sotheby's, London, London, 21 March 2001, lot 173
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Comment
This drawing is a version of FT240. White Abbott’s copy includes a portion lost from the right edge of the original.