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 (BP239) and in 1921 gave it to their nephew Philip Merivale (1886–1946). The drawing was subsequently in the collection of Mrs J. MacBrien, Philip Merivale’s daughter née Rosamund Merivale (b.1912), but is otherwise untraced.