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An Ivy Covered Ruin
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An Ivy Covered Ruin

Francis Towne

late 1780s–early 1790s

Medium

Watercolor with pen and brown ink with traces of graphite

Tags

RuinsTrees

Dimensions

Sheet: 8 1/4 × 10 1/2 in. (20.9 × 26.6 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Roberta J. M. Olson and Alexander B. V. Johnson, in memory of Laurie Vance Johnson and E. Dudley H. Johnson, 2013

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Francis Towne

1739–1816 • United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

Comment on works: Landscapes; Watercolors

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