A View near the Arco Scuro, looking towards the Villa Medici, at Rome

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Artist: Francis Towne (British, Isleworth, Middlesex 1739–1816 Exeter)
Date: 1785
Medium: Watercolor over graphite with pen and brown ink
Dimensions: sheet: 12 13/16 x 18 7/8 in. (32.5 x 48 cm)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawings
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Purchase, Walter and Leonore Annenberg Acquisitions Endowment and Harry G. Sperling Funds, 2010
Accession no.: 2010.439

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Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.