drawing;
album
- Museum number
- Nn,2.32
- Description
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Ruins and buildings on the Palatine, formerly part of an album; monumental ruins on left beside shrubs and trees, further buildings in distance. 1781
Pen and black ink and watercolour
- Production date
- 1781
- Dimensions
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Height: 376 millimetres
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Width: 529 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:
In the later 1780s and 1790s, in order to keep pace with changing fashions in watercolour Towne experimented with a new style and often drew watercolours without a pen outline. In this watercolour, Towne perhaps added the tree at the centre of this view during those later years. The sense of technical vacillation evident in the image itself is matched by the inscription on the back of the mount, where Towne scratched out the date of 'Febry 5 1781' only to add it back in again.
- 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,2.32
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 1972,U.622
