drawing;
album
- Museum number
- Nn,1.10
- Description
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Baths of Titus, formerly part of an album; tall ruins on l, with row of arches below and to right, overgrown with shrubs and bushes, further ruins in distant r. 1781
Pen and grey ink and watercolour
- Production date
- 1781
- Dimensions
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Height: 319 millimetres
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Width: 289 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- From album NN,01.1-25
See Nn,1.1 for information about the Towne albums as a whole.
The following label was written by Richard Stephens for the Towne exhibition in 2016:
The dark sky and heavy shading of this view of Trajan's Baths (then identified as the Baths of Titus) are indications that Towne worked on this view later in life.
Towne arrived in Rome with a supply of drawing paper from England which he used to make this watercolour. The watermark 'WHATMAN' is visible in reverse, running vertically up the sheet in the sky area. In Towne's later studies in the Roman countryside he used a locally-sourced paper, supplies of which he brought back to England and was still using on his tour of the Lake District in 1786.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2016 Jan-Aug, BM, 'Light, Time, Legacy: Francis Towne's watercolours of Rome' (no catalogue)
- Acquisition date
- 1816
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Nn,1.10
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 1972,U.629
