Artist
Francis Towne(British, 1739–1816)British, 1739–1816
CultureBritish
Titles
- Lake Albano
Date1781
Place depictedItaly
MediumPen and gray ink and grayish-brown wash over graphite on laid paper
DimensionsSheet: 12 5/8 × 18 1/2 in. (32.1 × 47 cm)
Credit LineThe Stuart Collection, museum purchase funded by Francita Stuart Koelsch Ulmer in honor of Mary Hale Lovett McLean
Object number2017.367
Non exposé
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Department
Prints and DrawingsSpecial Collections
Object Type
Exhibition HistoryThree Exeter Artists of the Eighteenth Century: Francis Hayman RA, Francis Towne, John White Abbot, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Festival of Britain, Exeter, May 8-September 12, 1951, cat. 188.
British Art, Lowell Libson, London, 2015 (exh. cat., 48049, illus.).
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Verso: Numbered in brown ink, center top edge: No 2
Verso: Inscribed, dated, and signed in brown ink, upper right: Lake of Albano/Evening Sun behind the trees on the left/hand / July the 10th, 1781 / Francis Towne’
Verso: Inscribed in brown ink, left bottom edge: A copy of this painted on canvas [sic] the same size for James Curtis Esq. 1784
Verso: Inscribed, dated, and signed in brown ink, upper right: Lake of Albano/Evening Sun behind the trees on the left/hand / July the 10th, 1781 / Francis Towne’
Verso: Inscribed in brown ink, left bottom edge: A copy of this painted on canvas [sic] the same size for James Curtis Esq. 1784
Verso: Watermark, center: J WHATMAN
Catalogue raisonnéStephens, Richard. A Catalogue Raisonné of Francis Towne (1739-1816). London: Paul Mellon Centre, 2016 (online catalogue).
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