Francis Towne

British, 1739 - 1816

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British artist (1739-1816)

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Francis Towne, Hampstead Heath, Evening Light, 1800, pen and black ink with gray and blue-gray wash over graphite on laid paper, Gift of Donald Stone, 2022.40.36

Hampstead Heath, Evening Light

Francis Towne · 1800 · pen and black ink with gray and blue-gray wash over graphite on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2022.40.36

Francis Towne, A View of Vevey with La Tour de Peilz in the Distance, 1781, pen and black ink over graphite on laid paper, Gift of William B. O'Neal, 1995.52.179

A View of Vevey with La Tour de Peilz in the Distance

Francis Towne · 1781 · pen and black ink over graphite on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1995.52.179

Francis Towne, The Wrekin, Shropshire, c. 1777/1783, gray wash over traces of graphite with pen and brown and gray ink on laid paper, Gift of Donald Stone, 2022.40.52

The Wrekin, Shropshire

Francis Towne · c. 1777/1783 · gray wash over traces of graphite with pen and brown and gray ink on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2022.40.52

Francis Towne, A Rocky Shore at Coombmartin, Devon (Combe Martin Bay), 1783, pen and gray-brown ink and wash on laid paper, Gift of Donald Stone, 2001.135.1

A Rocky Shore at Coombmartin, Devon (Combe Martin Bay)

Francis Towne · 1783 · pen and gray-brown ink and wash on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2001.135.1

Bibliography

1977

  • Andrew Wilton, British Watercolours: 1750 to 1850, Oxford: Phaidon, 1977, p. 198

1985

  • Scott Wilcox, British Watercolors: Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art, 1985, cat. 14