drawing;
album
- Museum number
- Nn,3.3
- Description
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Domaso, on the lake of Como, formerly part of an album; town on tree-lined shore on l, with boats at anchor, mountains on right in distance. 1781
Pen and grey ink and watercolour
- Production date
- 1781
- Dimensions
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Height: 289 millimetres
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Width: 469 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- From album NN,03.1-17
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:
Towne reached the north Italian lakes after three weeks of travel, during which he visited Terni, Florence and Bologna, reaching Lugano on 24 August. He drew this view of Lake Como on 27 August 1781, noting on the back that 'the Evening Sun sat from the right hand.' The following day he left the lakes behind, and crossed the Splügen Pass into Switzerland on 29 August. Almost exactly a year after he visited on his way to Rome, he returned to Geneva in September, spending a fortnight sketching around the lake and at Chamonix. Towne was back in London by 29 September.
- 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,3.3
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 1972,U.639
