- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- A View taken of the Upper Grounds of Peamore Park
- Date
- 1787
- Medium
- Watercolour
- Dimensions
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- image width 148mm,
- image length 184mm
- Mount
- mounted by the artist on grey oatmeal paper
- Inscription
-
- sheet, recto, lower left
- “F.Towne. delt. 1787”
- in brown ink
- Inscription
-
- artist's mount, verso
- “No.16 / A View taken of the upper grounds of Peamore Park / Looking towards Rocbere / Francis Towne / 1787”
- Object Type
- Watercolour
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- Collection
- Catalogue Number
- FT544
- Description Sources
- Examination; Museum records (image)
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 (BP207). In 1930 Judith Merivale sold it to Norman Darnton Lupton (1875–1953) of Hyde Crook, Dorchester, Dorset, for £27 10s. with five other drawings (FT320, FT371, FT375, FT436, FT597). Agnes Lupton (1874–1950) and Norman Lupton bequeathed the drawing to its present owner, Leeds City Art Gallery (13.197/53).
- Associated People & Organisations
- Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, 1953, 13.197/53
- Norman Darnton Lupton (1875 - 1953), Dorchester, 1930, GBP 27 10s
Acquired with FT320, FT371, FT375, FT436, FT597 - Agnes Lupton (1874 - 1950), Dorchester, 1930, GBP 27 10s
Acquired with FT320, FT371, FT375, FT436, FT597 - Judith Ann Merivale (1860 - 1945), Oxford, May 1915, BP207
- Maria Sophia Merivale (1853 - 1928), Oxford, May 1915, BP207
- John Herman Merivale (1779 - 1844), 1825
- James White (1744 - 1825), Exeter, 1816
- Bibliography
- Adrian Bury, Francis Towne - Lone Star of Water-Colour Painting, Charles Skilton: London, 1962, p. 132
- Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds Art Calendar, No. 26: Leeds, 1954, p. 12
- Paul Oppé, 'Francis Towne, Landscape Painter', The Walpole Society: London, 1920, p. 125
Other entries in Peamore, 1787–1804
A View taken of the Upper Grounds of Peamore Park
A View in Peamore Park near Exeter
Fitzwilliam Fitzwilliam Museum
A Study after Nature in Peamore Park near Exeter
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Comment
Peamore was known for its hills, offering views over Exeter and beyond, in this case, to Rokbeare, a village east of the city.
This is one of Towne’s rare pure watercolours drawn on the spot and evidently belonged to a numbered series of views. As they date from the same year and at least one is mounted on grey oatmeal paper, perhaps the series included views of Chudleigh Rocks (FT538, FT539). Not only is there no pen line here, though, but Towne has produced a study with a character that is deliberately sketch-like and unfinished.