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Thames from Millbank
Maker
1739-1816
Title
Date of Production
Medium
Dimensions
Width: 74.2 cm
Accession Number
Mode of Acquisition
D.C. Nairne, gift, in memory of Dick Kemp, November 1971
Patrick Nairne, gift, in memory of Dick Kemp, November 1971
Credit
Copyright
Location
Keywords
Provenance
See general Francis Towne file for provenance info.
Exhibition History
English Landscape Drawings and Watercolours, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/06/1979-01/09/1979
English Landscape Drawing and Watercolours, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/05/1977-01/06/1977 ...More
Views of London [? according to Stephens online catalogue raisonne of Towne], Fine Art Society, London, 1942 (Feb.)
67th Annual Exhibition of Water-Colour and Pencil Drawing, Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 1940
Exhibition of original drawings at the Gallery ... by F. Towne, The Gallery, Brook Street, London, 1805 ...Less
Literature
cat. no. 11
p. 28 (colour), p. 53 (black and white)
English Landscape Drawings and Watercolours, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1979
cat. no. 30
English Landscape Drawing and Watercolours, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1977
cat. no. 13 ...More
The Times, 5 Feb. 1942
as exhibited at Fine Art Society
The Listener, 25 July 1940
p. 128
as exhibited at Agnew's
Stephens, Richard, A Catalogue Raisonné of The Works of Francis Towne, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, http://francistowne.ac.uk/collection/home
no. FT596
ill. ...Less
Inscriptions
Inscription: Recto: lower right corner, grey ink, signed: “F. Towne / delt.”. Support (historic), Recto: lower right, graphite: “The Thames from Milbanke.”; lower left, graphite: monogram “PW” [?]. Support (historic), Verso: upper left, graphite: “Frame as now / your 1 ¼” Hogarth”; lower centre, brown ink, artist’s hand: “A View from Millbank the Thames Batersea [sic] Bridge + Church in the Distance / taken in the Morning of a hot Day drawn by Francis Towne on the Spot”.
Collector's mark: none.
Label: On verso of the frame, removed and now missing, recorded in the file: "Thos. Agnew & Sons, Ltd., no. 10172"; "The Fine Art Society Limited no. 52 February 1942".
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