- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- Aberglaslyn
- Date
- 1795
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and brown ink, watercolour
- Dimensions
-
- image width 263mm,
- image length 375mm
- Mount
- mounted by the artist
- Inscription
-
- sheet, recto, lower left
- “F.Towne delt 1795”
- in brown ink
- Inscription
-
- artist's mount, verso
- signed and dated “1795”
- Object Type
- Watercolour
-
- Catalogue Number
- FT583
- Description Sources
- Agnew’s records (image); Sotheby’s records; Examination
Provenance
Presumably bought or commissioned from the artist by Arthur Harington Champernowne (1768–1819), as his great-grandson Arthur Melville Champernowne (1871–1946; see Comment at FT602) sold it at Sotheby’s on 9 June 1938 to G. D. Thompson for £26 (a group with FT298, FT312, FT313). By 1945 the drawing had been acquired by Walter James Redfern Turner of Solihull (1889–1945), whose estate offered it for sale at Sotheby’s on 2 June 1946 and again on 1 or 2 June 1948, when it was bought by Agnew’s for £125 and sold by them the following year to Mrs Hodgkinson. In 1999 the drawing was again on sale at Agnew’s and was offered for sale by John Spink in November 2005 for £38,000.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Private Collection
- John Spink, London, November 2005, GBP 38000
- Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 1999
- Mrs Hodgkinson, 1949
- Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, June 1948
- Sotheby's, London, London, June 1948, GBP 125
- Walter James Redfern Turner (1889 - 1945), Solihull, 1945
- G. Douglas Thompson, 9 June 1938
Acquired in a group with FT298, FT312, and FT313. - Sotheby's, London, London, 9 June 1938, GBP 26
- Arthur Melville Champernowne (1871 - 1946), June 1938
- [?] Arthur Harington Champernowne (1768 - 1819)
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The Wrekin, on the Road between Much Wenlock and Shrewsbury
A View going from the Head of Lake Como over Mount Splugen
The Campagna near Rome looking towards the Sabine Mountains
A View of Loreto with Part of the Adriatic Sea
A View near the Arco Scuro Looking towards the Villa Medici
An Evening View from Mount Palatine looking towards Mount Aventine
A View on the Banks of the Tiber near Monte Milvio
A View of the Temple of Venus looking towards the Island of Nisida
Chateau de Glerolles, near Vevey on Lake Geneva
Abbey Valley Crucis, near Llangollen on the River Dee, North Wales
A View on the Banks of the Dee above Llangollen
A View of the Bay of Naples with the Island of Capri
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Comment
This is a view of Pont Aberglaslyn in North Wales. It is close to FT086, dated 9 July 1777, but is nevertheless a distinct view taken further from the bridge. Possibly it is based on FT087, no image of which is known, or else on another sketch, now lost.
The paper here is the same size as that used for another 1795 waterfall associated with Arthur Champernowne (FT584), which may also be a North Wales view.