Thomas Jones
The Aventine from the River Tiber, Rome

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Artist Thomas Jones(British (Welsh), 1742–1803)British (Welsh), 1742–1803

CultureBritish (Welsh)

Titles

The Aventine from the River Tiber, Rome

Date1777

MediumWatercolor and graphite on laid paper

DimensionsSheet: 13 1/4 × 20 3/8 in. (33.7 × 51.7 cm)

Credit LineThe Stuart Collection, museum purchase funded by the Robert Cummins Stuart and Frances Wells Stuart Endowment Fund and the Alvin S. Romansky Prints and Drawings Accessions Endowment

Object number2024.288

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Department

Prints and Drawings

Special Collections

The Stuart Collection

Object Type

DRAWINGS, PASTELS & WATERCOLORS

Provenance[Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 1959]; purchased by Walter Augustus Brandt (1902–1978) [1], 1959–1978; by descent, 1978–2022; [Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker, London, 2022–2024]; purchased by MFAH, 2024.

[1] Walter Brandt (1902–1978) was the scion of a successful German banking family established Britain since the early 1800s, Brandt started collecting in the 1940s and began buying in earnest towards the end of the 1950s, after which time he acquired drawings almost continually until his death. Though initially focused on contemporary art, Brandt grew increasingly interested in earlier work, and he eventually amassed one of the finest, most extensive collections of British drawings dating from 1650 to 1850; in particular, Brandt was a pioneering collector of neoclassical and romantic drawings.

Exhibition History86th Annual Exhibition of Water-Colour Drawings, exh. cat. London: Thomas Agnew & Sons, 1959, cat. 2.

Thomas Jones (1742-1803): First exhibition of the artist’s recently discovered oil sketches of Wales, Rome, and Naples. London, Marble Hill House; Twickenham; Cardiff, National Museum of Wales; London: Greater London Council, 1970, cat. 40, not illus. (as Near Rome) (exh. cat. by Ralph Edwards).

Thomas Jones 1742-1803: An Artist Rediscovered, exh. cat. Hew Haven: Yale University Press, in association with National Museums & Galleries of Wales, Cardiff, 2003, p. 183, under cat. 75, p. 199, cat. 91, illus. (exh. cat. by Sumner, Ann, Greg Smith, and Christopher Riopelle).
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Recto: None. TBD on verso.
Verso: [inaccessible]

Marks/Watermark: Strasbourg Lily; J. Whatman

Catalogue raisonnénot published

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