- Description
-
- Creator
- E. Trosse
- Title(s)
-
- The Temple of Hercules Victor, Tivoli
- The Villa At Maecenas, Tivoli
- Date
- 1793
- Medium
- Watercolour
- Dimensions
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- image height 254mm,
- image width 203mm
- Support
- paper watermarked with a crown and Prince of Wales feathers
- Mount
- mounted (?)by the artist
- Inscription
-
- sheet, recto, lower left
- “E. Trosse delt. 1793”
- (in Towne’s hand?)
- Inscription
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- artist's mount, verso
- “The Villa of Mecaenas at Tivoli from a drawing of Francis Towne’s / E.Trosse delt 1793”
- in Towne’s hand
- Object Type
- Watercolour
-
- Collection
- Catalogue Number
- FT860
- Description Sources
- Museum records (image)
Provenance
In the collection of the current owner, the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, by 1971 (121/1978x).
- Associated People & Organisations
- Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery, Exeter, 1971, 121/1978x
- Exhibition History
- Paintings and Drawings by Francis Towne and John White Abbott in the collection of Exeter Museums and Art Gallery, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, 1971, no. p. 38
- Bibliography
- Jane C. Baker, Catalogue of Oil Paintings, Watercolours, Drawings and Sculpture, Exeter Museums: Exeter, 1978, p. 122
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Patience Carpenter, Lady Trelawny
A View near Countess Wear Bridge looking towards Topsham and Exmouth
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Alpine Landscape, after Johann Ludwig Aberli
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Footnotes
- 1 Confusion, in other contexts, of the names “Trosse” and “Trope” dates from as long ago as the eighteenth century: Gomme 1893, p.89.
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Comment
This is a version of The Villa of Maecenas at Tivoli, pl.10 of the 1776 Twelve Original Views in Italy, drawn by Richard Wilson etched by Joseph Farington, Rooker &c. &c., one of four examples where Towne set pupils to copy images from the book (also FT843, FT851, FT881d). Given the inscription, the immediate source must be Towne’s own drawn version of the print, now lost (FT860a).
The signature has until now been identified as “Trope”.1