- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- View from Sessa Aurunca
- View from Tessa Aurinca
- Date
- 1784
- Medium
- Pencil (?), pen and ink, watercolour
- Dimensions
-
- image width 387mm,
- image length 629mm
- Inscription
-
- sheet, recto, lower left
- “Francis Towne delt / 1784”
- Object Type
- Watercolour
-
- Catalogue Number
- FT416
- Description Sources
- Museum records (image)
Provenance
This drawing was sold at Sotheby’s on 9 June 1937, where it was identified by Paul Oppé as a view of Pozzuoli, a companion work to the view of Capri that was sold in the same sale (see FT414). It was sold to Walker’s Galleries (for £15 according to Art Prices Current), who sold it to the present owner, Leicester City Art Gallery.
- Associated People & Organisations
- New Walk Museum & Art Gallery, Leicester Arts and Museums Service, Leicester
- Walker's Galleries, London, 9 June 1937, GBP 15
- Sotheby's, London, London, 9 June 1937
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Comment
This is a version of a drawing, now lost (FT229), that Towne probably made on his way to Naples, some fifty miles to the south of this view.