Label on verso, upper center: "Thos. Agnew & Sons Ltd. | No. 10524 | Fine Art Publishers [logo] To His Majesty | London, 43 Old Bond Street | Piccadilly, W."; center: "Francis Towne | Old Walton Bridge | Signed & dated 1785"; lower center: "Thos. Agnew & Sons Ltd. | No. 26171 | [logo] | By Appointment | To The Late King George VI | London, | 43 Old Bond Street/ | Piccadilly, W."; upper center: "L 278721 | [logo] | Allied Van Lines | 19 | PAT. No. 3,489,495"; lower right, handwritten: "Towne 8 | Old Walton Bridge | [D?]n"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1976.7.155
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
landscape | sailboat | rowboats | people | river | bridge (built work)
Associated Places:
England | United Kingdom | Thames | Surrey | Walton-on-Thames
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Canaletto to Constable: Paintings of Town and Country from the Yale Center for British Art (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 1998-02-08 - 1998-04-26)Canaletto to Constable: Paintings of Town and Country from the Yale Center for British Art (The Grand Rapids Art Museum, 1999-10-22 - 2000-01-02)Canaletto to Constable: Paintings of Town and Country from the Yale Center for British Art (Ferrara Galleries of Modern & Contemporary Art, 2001-02-25 - 2001-05-20)Oil on Water - Oil Sketches by British Watercolorists (Yale Center for British Art, 1986-08-26 - 1986-11-09)
Publications:
Canaletto to Constable : paintings of town and country from the Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Conn., 1998, p. 85, pl. 30, ND1354.4 Y25 1998 (YCBA)Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 224-225, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)Malcolm Cormack, Oil on water : oil sketches by British watercolorists, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1986, p. 54, fig. 59, ND467 C67 (YCBA)