In Tate Britain
Prints and Drawings Room
View by appointment- Artist
- Francis Towne 1739–1816
- Medium
- Watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 407 × 613 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased as part of the Oppé Collection with assistance from the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund 1996
- Reference
- T08195
Display caption
Towne was one of a pioneering generation of watercolour artists who endowed the medium, traditionally associated with rather humble, descriptive artistic work, with a new sense of ambition. In 1780–81 he travelled in Italy, sketching the landscape. On his return he received commissions for watercolours based on these observational sketches, of which this one. The sense of abstract design and the clarity of his watercolours were highly innovative, but Towne remained based in Devon working as a drawing teacher. His work was rediscovered and promoted by the collector AP Oppé in the 1930s.
Gallery label, February 2016
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