drawing;
album
- Museum number
- Nn,3.5
- Description
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In the Bay of Naples, formerly part of an album; wide view of bay with rocks in left foreground and shore on right with ruins beside water's edge, some sail boats in bay. 1781
Pen and ink and watercolour
- Production date
- 1781
- Dimensions
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Height: 253 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:
This shows the ruins of the unfinished Palazzo Donn'Anna on the coast at Posillipo. It may have been conceived originally as part of a broader panoramic view. Immediately to the right of this view stood Sir William Hamilton's small casino that was shortly to become known as Villa Emma. It was one of the favourite residences of Hamilton who was the British representative to the Neapolitan court. Towne and Jones called on him during the month Towne spent in Naples.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1990 May-Jul, Naples, Castel Sant'Elmo, 'Vesuvius', (no cat.)
1990 Oct-Nov, London, Accademia Italiana, 'Vesuvius', no cat. no. (p.133)
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,3.5
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 1972,U.645
