- Title:
- Ambleside
- Date:
- 1786
- Materials & Techniques:
- Watercolor and brown and gray ink over graphite on medium slightly textured cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 9 1/4 x 6 1/8 inches (23.5 x 15.6 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in black ink, lower left: "No 2"; inscribed on verso in graphite, upper center: "Morning light from the right hand"; in brown ink, upper left: "No 2"; in brown ink, upper center: "Ambleside August 7th 1786"; in brown ink, in docket on old mount, verso: "No 2 | Ambleside | drawn on the spot by | Francis Towne | August 7th 1786."
Signed and dated in black ink, lower left: "F. Towne | del. 1786 | No 2"
Watermark: Fleur-de-lis (similar to Heawood 1829)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.4147
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- hills | landscape | people | trees | village
- 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:5084
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British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, 1985-04 - 1986-08) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
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British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Memorial Art Gallery of Rochester, 1985-04 - 1986-08) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1985-04 - 1986-08) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Royal Academy of Arts, 2007-10-20 - 2008-01-27) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
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]
John Baskett, Paul Mellon's Legacy: a Passion for British Art: Masterpieces from the Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, pp. 261-62, no. 44, pl. 44, N5220 M552 P38 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 2, no. 44, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
Giles Waterfield, Mr. Mellon, RA : the magazine for the Friends of the Royal Academy, No. 96, Autumn 2007, p. 72, V 1905 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Scott Wilcox, British watercolors, drawings of the 18th and 19th centuries from the Yale Center for British Art , Hudson Hill Press, New York, 1985, no. 14, pl. 14, ND1928 W533 1985 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Timothy Wilcox, Francis Towne, Tate Publishing, London, 1997, p. 107, pp. 13-15, NJ18 T695 W55 1997 (YCBA) [YCBA]