An ivy covered ruin

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Artist: Francis Towne (British, Isleworth, Middlesex 1739–1816 Exeter)
Date: late 1780s–early 1790s
Medium: Watercolor with pen and brown ink with traces of graphite
Dimensions: Sheet: 8 1/4 × 10 1/2 in. (20.9 × 26.6 cm)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawings
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Gift of Roberta J. M. Olson and Alexander B. V. Johnson, in memory of Laurie Vance Johnson and E. Dudley H. Johnson, 2013
Accession no.: 2013.1121.1

Wooded Landscape
Francis Towne
1774 · Drawing
Public collection via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00003818
Tivoli, Showing Rome in the Distance
Francis Towne
c. 1781 · Drawing
Public collection via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00005719
Waterfall between Chiavenna and Mount Splügen
Francis Towne
1784 · Drawing
Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of ArtAT-00011088
Trees by the lake, Peamore Park, near Exeter, Devon
Francis Towne
1790–1810 · Drawing
Public collection via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00023158

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