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Francis Towne, 1740–1816, British, Near Ambleside, 1786
- Title:
Near Ambleside
- Date:
- 1786
- Medium:
- Watercolor and brown and gray ink with gum on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 6 x 9 1/8 inches (15.2 x 23.2 cm), Contemporary drawn border: 8 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches (22.2 x 29.8 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in black ink, lower left: "F. Towne | delt 1786 No 4"; in brown ink, verso, upper left: "No 4 | Near Ambleside | drawn on the spot | August 7th 1786 | by | Francis Towne"
Signed and dated in black ink, lower left: "F. Towne | delt 1786 No 4"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.6295
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- bridge (built work) | hills | landscape | men | river | road | sky | trees
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:5091
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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. 71, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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