- Title:
- The Claudian Aquaduct, Rome
- Date:
- 1785
- Materials & Techniques:
- Watercolor with pen and black ink, over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 12 5/8 x 18 1/2 inches (32.1 x 47 cm), Contemporary drawn border: 17 x 23 inches (43.2 x 58.4 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Watermark: Fleur-de-lis (unidentified)
Signed and dated in pen and black ink, lower right: "F. Towne delt | 1785"
Inscribed in pen and black ink, lower right: "F. Towne delt | 1785"; in pen and brown ink, verso, upper center: "No. 4 a View of the Claudian Aqueduct at Rome | looking towards mount Palatine | Drawn by | Francis Towne | 1785"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1978.43.170
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- arches | architectural subject | Grand Tour | landscape | people | ruins
- Associated Places:
- Rome
- 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:5092
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Duncan Bull, Classic ground : British artists and the landscape of Italy, 1740-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1981, pp. 5, 6, 50-1, no. 67, pl. V, ND1354.4 B85 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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Graham Reynolds, Scene and Sensibility, TLS, the Times Literary Supplement, , April 29, 1983, p. 438, TLS Historical Archive [ORBIS]
Duncan Robinson, Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977 - 1986, , Burlington Magazine, vol. 128, October 1986, p. 31, no. 126, N1 B87 128:3 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
The idea of Italy : photography and the British imagination, 1840-1900, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, p. 25, , pl. 2, TR57 .I33 2022+ (YCBA) [YCBA]
Scott Wilcox, Edward Lear and the art of travel, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2000, pp. 140-1, no. 159, NJ18 L455 W55 2000 (YCBA) [YCBA]