This is a drawing after a lost work by Towne (FT626). Given the subject of the drawing, it is likely that Yeoman was familiar with Exeter, presumably as a resident. Wilcox noted that Yeoman had received instruction in drawing before Towne, and that “she was already competent as a sketcher in pencil and wash before 1800”.¹ We should not envisage Yeoman as moving from one drawing tutor to another, finally reaching Towne. Rather, she was probably schooled in Exeter, where she would have been exposed to the mainstream landscape styles in print and drawing, under Towne’s tuition. A partly disbound sketchbook by Arabella Yeoman was given to the British Museum by Cyril Fry (location 241.a.7); given Wilcox’s comment, probably the view of Exeter was once inserted in it, as the British Museum database states: “One of the drawings from the sketchbook bore the artist’s name, but was sold before the sketchbook came to the BM.” Fry acquired the book “from a member of the Cotman family”.