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Francis Towne (1739/40-1816)

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Francis Towne (1739/40-1816)

Arthur's Seat from the Meadows, Edinburgh

signed, inscribed, dated and numbered '7/Arthurs Seat/from the Meadows Edinburgh/August 15 Morning/Francis Towne'; pencil, pen and grey ink and watercolour, unframed
6¾ x 10in. (172 x 254mm)

Lot Essay

For information regarding this and the following three lots and for other examples from the same album, see the catalogues of the British Drawings and Watercolours sales in these Rooms, 12 November 1991, lots 8-15, 7 April 1992, lots 65-9 and 9 November 1993, lots 26-30. Before the discovery of this album it was not known that Towne had visited Durham and Edinburgh

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