A View Near the Arco Scuro, Looking Towards the Villa Medici, Rome, Francis Towne, 1785

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A View Near the Arco Scuro, Looking Towards the Villa Medici, Rome, 1785, Watercolor over graphite with pen and brown ink, on laid paper, sheet: 12 13/16 x 18 7/8 in. ( x 48 cm), Drawings, Francis Towne (British, Isleworth, Middlesex 1739–1816 Exeter), Towne left Exeter, in southwestern England, to visit Italy in 1780-81. After his return, a former student commissioned this Roman view showing a steep road falling away over a hill toward the Villa Medici (now the Académie Française

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Size: 5582px × 3755px
Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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