drawing;
album
- Museum number
- Nn,1.20
- Description
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Ponte Molle, formerly part of an album; five arched bridge over Tiber, with fortified structure on l. 1781
Pen and grey ink and watercolour with gum arabic
- Production date
- 1781
- Dimensions
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Height: 322 millimetres
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Width: 475 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 Ponte Molle was the famous ancient bridge north of Rome over which travellers approaching from this direction passed on their way into the city. Although the bridge was in the area of Rome where Towne had worked during his initial weeks in the city, evidently he returned there the following summer, as on the mount Towne gave this a date in late June 1781.
See Nn,2.3, Nn,2.4, Nn,1.24 and Nn,2.12 for other views of the Tiber.
- 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)
- Condition
- Laid down in artist's wash-lined mount.
- Acquisition date
- 1816
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Nn,1.20
- Additional IDs
-
Miscellaneous number: 1972,U.726
