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Human-Made Object
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watercolor
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landscape
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Drawing & Watercolor
View of Lake Coniston, Lancashire
Inscribed in brown ink, lower left: "F. Towne | delt 1786"; Inscribed in brown ink, verso, upper center: "No 25 A View of the Lake of Coniston in Lancashire drawn on the Spot | by Francis Towne August 15th 1786"
Watermark: Fleur-de-lis (similar to Heawood 1849 with unidentified CK).
Signed and dated in brown ink, lower left: "F. Towne | delt 1786"
500303557
Yale Center for British Art
http://britishart.yale.edu
B1977.14.6293
Not on view
Yale Center for British Art
41.3080060, -72.9306282
12 3/4 × 24 7/8 inches (32.4 × 63.2 cm)
height
cm
32.4
width
cm
63.2
Mount
8 3/8 × 20 7/8 inches (21.3 × 53 cm)
height
cm
21.3
width
cm
53.0
Contemporary drawn border
6 1/8 × 18 5/8 inches (15.6 × 47.3 cm)
height
cm
15.6
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cm
47.3
Sheet
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production
Francis Towne, 1740–1816, British
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Francis Town
Old Francis Town
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Towne Francis, 1740–1816
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Francis Towne, 1740–1816
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brown ink
Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-06-09 - 2008-08-17)
500
https://britishart.yale.edu/node/647
300054766
exhibition
Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art
Yale Center for British Art
Yale Center for British Art
ycba_actor_1281
http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500303557
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British Art Center
BAC
YCBA
Yale Center for British Art
1977
0
66
Lender
2008-06-09 - 2008-08-17
2008-06-09
2008-08-17
Yale Center for British Art
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Yale Center for British Art
New Haven
7014210
New Haven
300435424
Great British Watercolors brought together eighty-eight outstanding works in the medium from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Center, including masterpieces by J. M. W. Turner, John Constable, William Blake, Paul Sandby, John Robert Cozens, Thomas Girtin, Thomas Gainsborough, and others. The exhibition was organized as part of the 2007 celebrations commemorating both the Center’s thirtieth anniversary and the centenary of the institution’s founder, Paul Mellon, one of the greatest cultural philanthropists of the twentieth century.
In a period of a little over fifteen years, beginning in the early 1960s, Mr. Mellon assembled one of the world’s greatest collections of British drawings and watercolors. As part of his extensive collecting of British art, he purchased several distinguished private collections of British watercolors, enriching and expanding them with astute purchases reflecting his own taste. In his memoirs he praised “the beauty and freshness of English drawings and watercolors, their immediacy and sureness of technique, their comprehensiveness of subject matter, their vital qualities, their Englishness.” — —
Great British Watercolors spanned more than a century of British artistic production, from the emergence of watercolor painting in the mid-eighteenth century to its flowering in the early nineteenth century. The exhibition highlighted the diversity of British watercolor painting, showing both landscapes and figurative works by some of the principal artists who worked in the medium. Paul Mellon’s collecting activity helped to revive the study of British watercolor. — —
Venues — —
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond: — —
July 11–September 30, 2007 — —
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia: — —
October 23, 2007–January 13, 2008 — —
Yale Center for British Art: — —
une 10–August 17, 2008 — —
Credits — —
Organized by the Center in association with the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Great British Watercolors was curated by Scott Wilcox, Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Center; Mitchell Merling, Paul Mellon Curator and Head of the Department of European Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; and Matthew Hargraves, Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Paintings and Sculpture at the Center.
Yale Center for British Art
Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (The State Hermitage Museum, 2007-10-23 - 2008-01-13)
500
https://britishart.yale.edu/node/647
300054766
exhibition
Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art
Yale Center for British Art
The State Hermitage Museum
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The State Hermitage Museum
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2008-01-13
The State Hermitage Museum
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Sankt-Peterburg
300435424
Great British Watercolors brought together eighty-eight outstanding works in the medium from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Center, including masterpieces by J. M. W. Turner, John Constable, William Blake, Paul Sandby, John Robert Cozens, Thomas Girtin, Thomas Gainsborough, and others. The exhibition was organized as part of the 2007 celebrations commemorating both the Center’s thirtieth anniversary and the centenary of the institution’s founder, Paul Mellon, one of the greatest cultural philanthropists of the twentieth century.
In a period of a little over fifteen years, beginning in the early 1960s, Mr. Mellon assembled one of the world’s greatest collections of British drawings and watercolors. As part of his extensive collecting of British art, he purchased several distinguished private collections of British watercolors, enriching and expanding them with astute purchases reflecting his own taste. In his memoirs he praised “the beauty and freshness of English drawings and watercolors, their immediacy and sureness of technique, their comprehensiveness of subject matter, their vital qualities, their Englishness.” — —
Great British Watercolors spanned more than a century of British artistic production, from the emergence of watercolor painting in the mid-eighteenth century to its flowering in the early nineteenth century. The exhibition highlighted the diversity of British watercolor painting, showing both landscapes and figurative works by some of the principal artists who worked in the medium. Paul Mellon’s collecting activity helped to revive the study of British watercolor. — —
Venues — —
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond: — —
July 11–September 30, 2007 — —
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia: — —
October 23, 2007–January 13, 2008 — —
Yale Center for British Art: — —
une 10–August 17, 2008 — —
Credits — —
Organized by the Center in association with the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Great British Watercolors was curated by Scott Wilcox, Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Center; Mitchell Merling, Paul Mellon Curator and Head of the Department of European Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; and Matthew Hargraves, Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Paintings and Sculpture at the Center.
Yale Center for British Art
Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2007-07-11 - 2007-09-30)
500
https://britishart.yale.edu/node/647
300054766
exhibition
Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art
Yale Center for British Art
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Richmond
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Richmond
300435424
Great British Watercolors brought together eighty-eight outstanding works in the medium from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Center, including masterpieces by J. M. W. Turner, John Constable, William Blake, Paul Sandby, John Robert Cozens, Thomas Girtin, Thomas Gainsborough, and others. The exhibition was organized as part of the 2007 celebrations commemorating both the Center’s thirtieth anniversary and the centenary of the institution’s founder, Paul Mellon, one of the greatest cultural philanthropists of the twentieth century.
In a period of a little over fifteen years, beginning in the early 1960s, Mr. Mellon assembled one of the world’s greatest collections of British drawings and watercolors. As part of his extensive collecting of British art, he purchased several distinguished private collections of British watercolors, enriching and expanding them with astute purchases reflecting his own taste. In his memoirs he praised “the beauty and freshness of English drawings and watercolors, their immediacy and sureness of technique, their comprehensiveness of subject matter, their vital qualities, their Englishness.” — —
Great British Watercolors spanned more than a century of British artistic production, from the emergence of watercolor painting in the mid-eighteenth century to its flowering in the early nineteenth century. The exhibition highlighted the diversity of British watercolor painting, showing both landscapes and figurative works by some of the principal artists who worked in the medium. Paul Mellon’s collecting activity helped to revive the study of British watercolor. — —
Venues — —
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond: — —
July 11–September 30, 2007 — —
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia: — —
October 23, 2007–January 13, 2008 — —
Yale Center for British Art: — —
une 10–August 17, 2008 — —
Credits — —
Organized by the Center in association with the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Great British Watercolors was curated by Scott Wilcox, Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Center; Mitchell Merling, Paul Mellon Curator and Head of the Department of European Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; and Matthew Hargraves, Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Paintings and Sculpture at the Center.
Yale Center for British Art
Francis Towne (Tate Britain, 1997-06-24 - 1997-09-14)
529
300054766
exhibition
Francis Towne
Yale Center for British Art
Tate Britain
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Tate Britain
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London
7011781
London
Francis Towne (Leeds Art Gallery, 1997-10-02 - 1998-01-04)
529
300054766
exhibition
Francis Towne
Yale Center for British Art
Leeds Art Gallery
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Leeds Art Gallery
0
0
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1997-10-02
1998-01-04
Leeds Art Gallery
ycba_actor_5928
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Leeds Art Gallery
Leeds
7010442
Leeds
Fairest Isle - The Appreciation of British Scenery 1750-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1989-04-12 - 1989-06-25)
640
300054766
exhibition
Fairest Isle - The Appreciation of British Scenery 1750-1850
Yale Center for British Art
Yale Center for British Art
ycba_actor_1281
http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500303557
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6352575
https://viaf.org/viaf/155449049
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77005277
Yale Center for British Art
BAC
YCBA
British Art Center
1977
0
63
Organizer
1989-04-12 - 1989-06-25
1989-04-12
1989-06-25
Yale Center for British Art
ycba_actor_1281
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77005277
http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500303557
https://viaf.org/viaf/155449049
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6352575
Yale Center for British Art
New Haven
7014210
New Haven
Oil on Water - Oil Sketches by British Watercolorists (Yale Center for British Art, 1986-08-26 - 1986-11-09)
590
300054766
exhibition
Oil on Water - Oil Sketches by British Watercolorists
Yale Center for British Art
Yale Center for British Art
ycba_actor_1281
http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500303557
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6352575
https://viaf.org/viaf/155449049
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77005277
Yale Center for British Art
BAC
YCBA
British Art Center
1977
0
300025633
Curator
1986-08-26 - 1986-11-09
1986-08-26
1986-11-09
Yale Center for British Art
ycba_actor_1281
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77005277
http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500303557
https://viaf.org/viaf/155449049
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6352575
Yale Center for British Art
New Haven
7014210
New Haven
Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10-20 - 1983-02-27)
592
300054766
exhibition
Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830
Yale Center for British Art
Yale Center for British Art
ycba_actor_1281
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77005277
https://viaf.org/viaf/155449049
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6352575
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Yale Center for British Art
BAC
YCBA
British Art Center
1977
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1982-10-20 - 1983-02-27
1982-10-20
1983-02-27
Yale Center for British Art
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Yale Center for British Art
New Haven
7014210
New Haven
5089
583617
ND467 C67 (YCBA)
14254730
368
300054686
publication event
Malcolm Cormack, ^Oil on water, oil sketches by British watercolorists ^, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1986, p. 54, fig. 60, ND467 C67 (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art
Malcolm Cormack
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Cormack Malcolm
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Yale Center for British Art
ycba_actor_1281
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http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500303557
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Yale Center for British Art
300025574
Publisher
1986
1986
1986
New Haven
5089
580464
ND1354.4 H38 (YCBA)
9078534
282
300054686
publication event
Louis Hawes, ^Presences of Nature : British Landscape, 1780-1830, ^, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1982, pp. 117-8, no. I.9, pl. 93, ND1354.4 H38 (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art
Louis Hawes
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Yale Center for British Art
ycba_actor_1281
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http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500303557
https://viaf.org/viaf/155449049
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6352575
Yale Center for British Art
300025574
Publisher
1982
1982
1982
New Haven, CT
5089
818773
ND1354.4 F35 (YCBA)
20634286
372
300054686
publication event
Duncan Robinson, ^Fairest isle : the appreciation of British scenery, 1750-1850, ^, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1989, p. 7 and inside cover, no. 43, ND1354.4 F35 (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art
Duncan Robinson
ycba_actor_2713
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Robinson Duncan
300025492
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Yale Center for British Art
ycba_actor_1281
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http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500303557
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Yale Center for British Art
300025574
Publisher
1989
1989
1989
New Haven
5089
4121897
NJ18 T695 W55 1997 (YCBA)
37744249
2842
300054686
publication event
Timothy Wilcox, ^Francis Towne^, Tate Publishing, London, 1997, pp. 117-118, no. 52, NJ18 T695 W55 1997 (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art
Timothy Wilcox
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Wilcox Timothy
300025492
Author
Tate Publishing
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Tate Publishing
300025574
Publisher
1997
1997
1997
London
5089
7842306
ND1928 .Y35 2007 (LC)+ Oversize (YCBA)
71833360
4877
300054686
publication event
Yale Center for British Art, ^Great British watercolors : from the Paul Mellon Collection^, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2007, pp. 30-32 (detail pp. 31-32), no. 10, ND1928 .Y35 2007 (LC)+ Oversize (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art
Yale Center for British Art
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77005277
http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500303557
https://viaf.org/viaf/155449049
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6352575
Yale Center for British Art
300025492
Author
Matthew Hargraves
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Hargraves Matthew
300025492
Author
Scott Wilcox
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Wilcox Scott
300025492
Author
Yale University Press
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Yale University Press
300025574
Publisher
2007
2007
2007
New Haven
5089
300157782
acquisition
Yale Center for British Art
ycba_actor_1281
YCBA
BAC
Yale Center for British Art
British Art Center
1977
0
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Owner
1977-01-01
1977-01-01
1977-01-01
300138913
gift
Forgotten for over a century, Francis Towne's watercolors were rediscovered in the early twentieth century and recognized as some of the finest drawings of the eighteenth century. Towne's technique of using watercolor within carefully penned outlines was entirely conventional, but his ability to abstract views into strikingly simplified patterns gives his work a uniquely modern feel. This view of Lake Coniston was made in 1786 on a tour of the Lake District, the panoramic format requiring two pages of a sketchbook that Towne filled and subsequently dismantled. In this case the join in the middle has been left prominently to indicate that this was a view "drawn on the spot," as Towne liked to put it.
--- --- Gallery label for Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-06-09 - 2008-08-17)
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2008-06-24
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Coniston Water
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Malcolm Cormack, Oil on water, oil sketches by British watercolorists, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1986, p. 54, fig. 60, ND467 C67 (YCBA)
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related to
Louis Hawes, Presences of Nature : British Landscape, 1780-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1982, pp. 117-8, no. I.9, pl. 93, ND1354.4 H38 (YCBA)
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related to
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818773
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20634286
372
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4121897
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37744249
2842
related to
Yale Center for British Art, Great British watercolors : from the Paul Mellon Collection, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2007, pp. 30-32 (detail pp. 31-32), no. 10, ND1928 .Y35 2007 (LC)+ Oversize (YCBA)
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ND1928 .Y35 2007 (LC)+ Oversize (YCBA)
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500303557
Yale Center for British Art
https://britishart.yale.edu
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
300055598
Public Domain
300435434
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
5089
300133025
Item
500303557
Yale Center for British Art
http://britishart.yale.edu
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:5089
oai:tms.ycba.yale.edu:5089
https://manifests.collections.yale.edu/v2/ycba/obj/5089
https://manifests.collections.yale.edu/ycba/obj/5089
IIIF manifest
Yale Center for British Art
500303557
Yale Center for British Art