- Description
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- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
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- Durham
- Date
- 1811/08/10
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and grey ink, watercolour
- Dimensions
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- image height 172mm,
- image width 511mm
- Support
- two sheets
- Inscription
-
- sheet, verso
- “No4 / Durham / August 10th. 1811 / Francis Towne”
- Part of
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- 1811 Sketchbook
- Object Type
- Watercolour
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- Catalogue Number
- FT718
- Description Sources
- Examination; Christie's 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. It descended to Merivale’s granddaughter Janet Louisa Gibbs (née Merivale, d.1909) within a sketchbook containing FT715 to FT732, and thereafter within her family, until it was sold at Christie’s on 9 November 1993, lot 27, for £2,200, whereafter it is untraced.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Untraced
- Private Collection, 9 November 1993, GBP 2200
- Christie's, London, London, 9 November 1993, lot 27
- Janet Louisa Gibbs (née Merivale) (? - 1909)
Within a sketchbook containing FT715 to FT732. - John Herman Merivale (1779 - 1844), 1825
- James White (1744 - 1825), Exeter, 1816
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