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- Title:
Lake Windermere
- Date:
- 1786
- Medium:
- 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), Contemporary drawn border: 12 5/8 x 24 3/4 inches (32.1 x 62.9 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated in black ink, lower left: "No 13 F Towne. delt 1786"
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:
- hills | lake | landscape | trees
- Associated Places:
- Cumbria | Windermere
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:5083
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The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
Francis Towne (Leeds Art Gallery, 1997-10-02 - 1998-01-04) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Francis Towne (Tate Britain, 1997-06-24 - 1997-09-14) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Gentle, Rural and Sublime - English Landscape Paintings and Watercolors, 1750-1850 (Denver Art Museum, 1993-12-11 - 1994-02-06) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Fairest Isle - The Appreciation of British Scenery 1750-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1989-04-12 - 1989-06-25) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
English Landscape (Paul Mellon Collection) 1630-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-07-17) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
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, cat. no. 54, N5247.M385 L62 (YCBA) [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) [YCBA]
Katharine Baetjer, Glorious nature, British landscape painting, 1750-1850 , Zwemmer publisher, London, 1993, pp. 34, 136, no. 26, ND1354.4 B34 1993 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , 1,2, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, p. 63, no. 72, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA) [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) [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) [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) [YCBA]
Timothy Wilcox, Francis Towne, Tate Publishing, London, 1997, pp. 114-15, no. 49, NJ18 T695 W55 1997 (YCBA) [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, Cat. No. 54, NC228 Y34 (YCBA) [YCBA]