Watercolor and brown and gray ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 1/8 x 18 5/8 inches (15.6 x 47.3 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in black ink, lower left: "No 13 F Towne. delt 1786"; in black ink, verso, upper left: "No 13 | afternoon light from the right hand"; upper center: "The Lake of Windermere taken near Low Wood | August ye 9th 1786 by | Francis Towne"; center left: "Leicester Square | 1790 London"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.4.1878
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
lake | hills | trees | landscape
Associated Places:
Windermere | Cumbria
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)Francis Towne (Tate Britain, 1997-06-24 - 1997-09-14)Francis Towne (Leeds Art Gallery, 1997-10-02 - 1998-01-04)Gentle, Rural and Sublime - English Landscape Paintings and Watercolors, 1750-1850 (Denver Art Museum, 1993-12-11 - 1994-02-06)Fairest Isle - The Appreciation of British Scenery 1750-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1989-04-12 - 1989-06-25)English Landscape (Paul Mellon Collection) 1630-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-07-17)
Publications:
A loan exhibition of English drawings and watercolours from the collection of Mr and Mrs Paul Mellon of Upperville, Virginia, P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London, 1964, no. 54, N5247.M385 L62 (YCBA)Malcolm Andrews, The Search for the Picturesque, Landscape aesthetics and Tourism in Britain, 1760-1800 , Scolar Press, Aldershot, England, 1989, p. 157, fig. 50, BH301 L3 A53 (YCBA)Katharine Baetjer, Glorious nature : British landscape painting, 1750-1850, , Zwemmer publisher, London, 1993, pp. 34, 136, no. 26, ND1354.4 B34 1993 (YCBA)Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , , Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, p. 63, no. 72, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA)Duncan Robinson, Fairest isle : the appreciation of British scenery, 1750-1850, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1989, p. 7, no. 41, ND1354.4 F35 (YCBA)Christopher White, English landscape, 1630-1850 : drawings, prints & books from the Paul Mellon Collection, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1977, p. 30, no. 46, pl. VII, NC228 W45 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, pp. 67-9, no. 53, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)Timothy Wilcox, Francis Towne, Tate Publishing, London, 1997, pp. 114-15, no. 49, NJ18 T695 W55 1997 (YCBA)Yale University Art Gallery, English drawings and watercolors from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, April 15-June 20,1965, , New Haven, 1965, no. 54, NC228 Y34 (YCBA)