- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- A Distant View of Cader Idris
- Date
- 1777/07/03
- Medium
- Pen and ink, watercolour
- Dimensions
-
- image width 235mm,
- image length 298mm
- Support
- paper watermarked with a Fleur de lis design
- Inscription
-
- sheet, verso
- “No 15 a distant view of Cader Idris / July the 3rd 1777 / drawn on the spot by Francis Towne”
- Object Type
- Watercolour
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- Catalogue Number
- FT080
- Description Sources
- Paul Oppé records; Bury
Provenance
Bequeathed by the artist in 1816 to James White of Exeter (1744–1825), on whose death it passed to Towne’s residuary legatee John Herman Merivale (1779–1844) and his successors. Merivale’s granddaughters Maria Sophia Merivale (1853–1928) and Judith Ann Merivale (1860–1945), both of Oxford, inherited the drawing in May 1915 (BP106) and they gave it in 1921 to their niece Dorothea, Lady Bunbury (b.1888, née Merivale; see also 247), who sold it on 10 May 1946 to Agnew’s (no.4613) for £30 with 247. On 12 July 1946 Agnew’s sold it for £45 less £2 5s. for services to Sir John Heathcoat Amory, Bt (1894–1972), in whose collection it still was in 1962, but it is now untraced.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Untraced
- Sir John Heathcoat Amory (1894 - 1972), 12 July 1946, GBP 45, less £2.5s for services
- Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 10 May 1946, GBP 30, no.4613
Acquired with FT247 - Lady Dorothy Bunbury (1888), 1921
- Judith Ann Merivale (1860 - 1945), Oxford, May 1915, BP106
- Maria Sophia Merivale (1853 - 1928), Oxford, May 1915, BP106
- John Herman Merivale (1779 - 1844), 1825
- James White (1744 - 1825), Exeter, 1816
- Exhibition History
- Loan Exhibition: English Watercolours and Drawings from Local Collections, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, 1949, no. 15
- Three Exeter Artists of the Eighteenth Century: Francis Hayman RA, Francis Towne, John White Abbott, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, 1951, no. 42
- Bibliography
- Adrian Bury, Francis Towne - Lone Star of Water-Colour Painting, Charles Skilton: London, 1962, p. 144
Other entries in Tour of Wales, 1777
View of a Mountain, Perhaps near Aberddwlas
A View near Dolgelly with Part of Cader Idris
A View of the Salmon Leap from Pont Aberglaslyn
The West Front of Tintern Abbey
Chepstow Chepstow Museum and Art Gallery
The Ruins of the Great Room in Ludlow Castle, Shopshire, where Milton’s Comus was Performed
Footnotes
- 1 Paul Oppé records: notes, ca. 1915.
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Comment
Cader Idris is the vast mountain that appears in Towne’s view near Dolgelly (FT077).
Paul Oppé’s note of this drawing reads: