Francis Towne

Lot 205: FRANCIS TOWNE

Name: FRANCIS TOWNE
Brand: Sotheby's
SKU: 6d40db3ea2

Est: £4,000 GBP - £6,000 GBP

Sotheby'sLondon, United KingdomJuly 07, 2011

Item Overview

Description

ISLEWORTH, MIDDLESEX BAP. 1739-1816 LONDON
ITALIAN LANDSCAPE WITH BUILDINGS BY A STREAM
Watercolour over traces of pencil, with pen and grey ink, on laid paper watermarked: JW with a Strasburg Lily, unframed
240 by 186 mm

Artist or Maker

Francis Towne

Exhibited

Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Musuem, Exhibition of Drawings and Watercolours from a Private Collection, 1971, no. 1 (as John White Abbott)

Provenance

Sale, London, Sotheby's, 22 April 1959, lot 33 (as John White Abbott), to Walkers Galleries,
with Walkers Galleries, London, by whom sold in 1959 to Walter Brandt

Auction Details

Old Master and British Drawings including Property from the Descendants of Walter Brandt

Sotheby's

July 07, 2011, 12:00 PM GMT

34-35 New Bond Street, London, LDN, W1A 2AA, UK

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