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Francis Towne (Middlesex 1739-1816 London)
Lot 36

Francis Towne (Middlesex 1739-1816 London)

Villa Adriana, Tivoli, Italy

Closed2 July 2013

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Francis Towne (Middlesex 1739-1816 London)
Villa Adriana, Tivoli, Italy
signed, inscribed, dated and numbered 'No. 41 May 22. 1781. Villa Adriana. Light coming on the left-hand side. Francis Towne' (according to a typed label on the backboard)
pen and black ink and watercolour, fragmentary watermark
6 x 8 in. (15.2 x 21.6 cm.)

Professor Selwyn Image, by 1919.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 20 November 1953, part of lot 29 (185 gns to Agnew's).
with Agnew's, London, where purchased by Sir William Worsley, 1953, (190 gns), and thence by descent in the family.