drawing;
album
- Museum number
- Nn,2.10
- Description
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View from the Martinelli Vineyard, two miles from the Porta Pia, Rome, formerly part of an album; view over fields and plains, with villa in left mid-distance and larger dwelling on r, mountains in distance. 1780
Pen and grey ink and watercolour
- Production date
- 1780
- Dimensions
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Height: 209 millimetres
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Width: 269 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- From album NN,02.1-32
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:
Signor Martinelli offered lodgings at his farmhouse north of Rome to visiting artists, including John Robert Cozens, Thomas Jones and John 'Warwick' Smith (examples of whose work are in the case behind you and on the far wall). Like Towne, these British visitors of the 1770s and 1780s showed little interest in urban scenes of Baroque churches, squares and palazzi, of the kind made popular by earlier artists. They instead preferred to accentuate the rural character of Rome and focused less on its modern splendour than on its ancient remains.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1988 Oct-Dec, Whitworth AG, 'Travels in Italy', no. 34
2016 Jan-Aug, BM, 'Light, Time, Legacy: Francis Towne's watercolours of Rome' (no catalogue)
- Condition
- Laid down in artist's original wash-lined mount.
- Acquisition date
- 1816
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Nn,2.10
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 1972,U.608
