Artist
Francis TowneBritish, 1739–1816
CultureBritish
Titles
- Ullswater
Datec. 1786
MediumGraphite, pen and black and brown ink and watercolor on laid paper
DimensionsSheet: 10 1/2 × 14 15/16 in. (26.7 × 37.9 cm)
Credit LineThe Stuart Collection, museum purchase funded by Francita Stuart Koelsch Ulmer
Object number2024.15
Not on view
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Exhibition HistoryPossibly Exhibition of Original Drawings at the Gallery, No.20 Lower Brook Street, Grosvenor Square, 20 Lower Brook Street, 1805, no. 53, 54 or 55 (as 'Ulswater, or Ulswater, near Patterdale')
Home and Abroad: Drawings and Watercolours from a Private Collection 1700-1840, exh., Gainsborough's House, Sudbury, Suffolk, June 30-September 29, 2012, p. 25, Cat. 32, illus. front cover
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Verso: Inscribed in ink: Light from the Left hand / Ulswater
Watermark: TBD; Artist’s Mount: TBD
Catalogue raisonnéOppé , Paul. “Francis Towne, Landscape Painter,” Walpole Society, VIII, 1920, pp, 121-2. Stephens, Richard. A Catalogue Raisonné of Francis Towne (1739-1816). London: Paul Mellon Centre, 2016 (online catalogue), Cat. FT526, illus.
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