- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- A View on the Banks of the Dee above Llangollen
- Date
- 1788
- Medium
- Pencil, watercolour
- Dimensions
-
- image width 385mm,
- image length 540mm
- Mount
- (?) mounted by the artist
- Inscription
-
- sheet, recto, lower left
- “F.Towne delt / 1788”
- Inscription
-
- artist's mount, verso
- “A View on the Banks of the River Dee / above Llangollen North Wales / drawn by Francis Towne, 1788”
- Object Type
- Watercolour
-
- Catalogue Number
- FT549
- Description Sources
- Sotheby's records (image)
Provenance
Commissioned on 28 December 1785 by Lady Acland, wife of Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, Bt (1752–1794), and descended in his family until offered for sale by Sir Richard Thomas Dyke Acland, Bt (1906–1990), at Sotheby’s on 21 November 1968, lot 26, where it did not sell (bidding reached £750), and on 19 March 1981, lot 107. It was sold at Sotheby’s in New York on 20 January (or February?) 1982, lot 20, to Oscar and Peter Johnson Ltd. It is now in the collection of the National Library of Wales.
- Associated People & Organisations
- National Library of Wales, Cardiff
- Oscar and Peter Johnson Ltd, 20 January 1982
- Sotheby's, London, New York, 20 January 1982, lot 20
- Sotheby's, London, New York, 19 March 1981, lot 107
Unsold - Sotheby's, London, London, 21 November 1968, lot 26
Unsold - Sir Richard Thomas Acland (1906 - 1990)
- Lady Henrietta Anne Acland (née Hoare) (1765 - 1841)
- Sir Thomas Dyke Acland (1752 - 1794), Exwick, Exeter, 1788
- Exhibition History
- unidentified exhibition, Oscar and Peter Johnson Ltd, 1982, no. 23
- Bibliography
- Paul Oppé, 'Francis Towne, Landscape Painter', The Walpole Society: London, 1920, pp. 122-123
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Comment
This drawing is a copy of FT103.