- Description
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- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
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- View near the Chateau de Chillon at the Head of Lake Geneva
- Date
- No date
- Object Type
- Unknown
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- Catalogue Number
- FT648
- Description Sources
- Exhibition catalogues
- Associated People & Organisations
- Untraced
- Exhibition History
- [?] Exhibition of Original Drawings at the Gallery, No.20 Lower Brook Street, Grosvenor Square, 20 Lower Brook Street, 1805, no. 118 as 'A view near the Chateau de Chillon at the head of the Lake of Geneva, in a gold frame and plate-glass'
- The Exhibition of the Royal Academy, Royal Academy of Arts, 1809, no. 589 as 'View near the Chateau de Chillon at the head of the Lake of Geneva'
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Comment
Towne’s 1809 exhibit may have been based on a Fitzwilliam Museum sketch dated 1781, which was inscribed “Head of the Lake of Geneva / looking towards Montra & the Chateaû de Chillon” (FT379). It was presumably displayed four years earlier at the Lower Brook Street exhibition. If so, it must have been a watercolour as the framing information in the 1805 catalogue makes clear.