id:			170140
accession number:	2012.35
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2012.35
updated:		2025-02-09 07:01:38.135000

Waterfall between Chiavenna and Mount Splügen, 1784. Francis Towne (British, 1739/40–1816). Watercolor with graphite, point of brushwork, and selective glazing ; sheet: 47.3 x 56.8 cm (18 5/8 x 22 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 2012.35

title:				Waterfall between Chiavenna and Mount Splügen
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creation date:			1784
creation date earliest:		1784
creation date latest:		1784
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creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	England, 18th century
technique:	watercolor with graphite, point of brushwork, and selective glazing 
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - British
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* Francis Towne (British, 1739/40–1816)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 47.3 x 56.8 cm (18 5/8 x 22 3/8 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	signed and dated, in pen and brown ink, at lower left: Francis Towne / dell. 1784
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		British Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art 
	opening date:   2013-02-10T00:00:00
	<i>British Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art </i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-May 26, 2013).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>Judging by Appearances: Master Drawings from the Collection of Joseph and Deborah Goldyne</em>. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (March 4 - June 4, 2006).', 'opening_date': '2006-03-04T00:00:00'}

* {'description': '<em>The Paul Oppé Collection of English Watercolours and Old Master Drawings. </em>Royal Academy of Arts, London (1958).', 'opening_date': '1958-01-01T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Lord Redesdale
	date: ?-?
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	(sale, Bruton Knowles & Co., May 2, 1919, no. 629)
	date: 1919
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	Adolph Paul Oppé [1878-1957], London, by descent
	date: after 1919-before 1982
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	(sale, Sotheby's, London, November 11, 1982, no. 59)
	date: 1982
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	(Morton-Morris and Co., London)
	date: after 1982-before 2006
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	Joseph and Deborah Goldyne, San Francisco, CA
	date: before 2006-before 2012
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	(Addison Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)
	date: after 2006-by 2012
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	Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2012-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Oppé, A. P. "Francis Towne, Landscape Painter." <em>Walpole Society</em> 8 (1920).
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 122
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	<em>Exhibition of Works from the Paul Oppé Collection; English Watercolours and Old Master Drawings</em>. Exh. Cat. London: Royal Academy, 1958.
	page number: 	Mentioned: no. 58
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	Bury, Adrian. <em>Francis Towne: Lone Star of Water-Colour Painting</em>. London: C. Skilton, 1962.
	page number: 	Mentioned: pp. 88, 145
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	Wilcox, Timothy. <em>Francis Towne</em>. Exh. Cat. London: Tate Gallery, 1997.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 133
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	Johnson, Robert Flynn and Joseph R. Goldyne. <em>Judging by Appearance: Master Drawings from the Collection of Joseph and Deborah Goldyne</em>. Exh. Cat. San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2006.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 140-41, no. 62
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	Lemonedes, Heather. <em>British Drawings: The Cleveland Museum of Art. </em>Exh. Cat. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2013.
	page number: 	Mentioned: pp. 36-37, 149, no. 8; Reproduced: p. 37
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	Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em>. Vol. 53 no. 02, March/April 2013
	page number: 	Mentioned & reproduced: p. 18
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2013-02/page/n17

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