- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- Grange at the Head of Derwent Water
- Date
- 1786/08
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and brown ink, watercolour, scratching out
- Dimensions
-
- image width 98mm,
- image length 156mm
- Mount
- mounted by the artist on card measuring 184 x 242 mm
- Inscription
-
- sheet, recto, lower right
- “F.Towne / 1786”
- in thin black ink
- Inscription
-
- artist's mount, verso
- “No 29 The Grange at the Head / of Keswick Lake”
- in thick brown ink
- Object Type
- Watercolour
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- Collection
- Catalogue Number
- FT502
- Description Sources
- Examination; Museum records (image)
Provenance
Presumably bought from the artist by Arthur Harington Champernowne (1768–1819), whose great-great-granddaughter Katharine Iris Paull of Chichester sold it at Sotheby’s on 30 July 1952, lot 9, for £40 to Agnew’s (no.6964), who bought it on behalf of Captain Vivian Bulkeley-Johnson (1890/1891–1968) of The Mount, Oxfordshire. By 1972 it was the property of The Mount Trust Collection, whose administrators sold it at Christie’s on 14 November 1972, lot 95, for £3,150 to Baskett & Day on behalf of Paul Mellon (1907–1999), who gave it to the current owner, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven (B1975.4.962; gift to Yale, December 1975).
- Associated People & Organisations
- Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, December 1975, B1975.4.962
- Mr Paul Mellon (1907 - 1999), London, 14 November 1972
- Christie's, London, London, 14 November 1972, GBP 3150, lot 95
- Captain Vivian Bulkeley-Johnson (1890/91 - 1968), 30 July 1952
- Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 30 July 1952, no.6964
Bought on behalf of Captain Vivian Bulkeley-Johnson - Sotheby's, London, London, 30 July 1952, GBP 40, lot 9
- Katharine Iris Paull, 29 July 1952
- [?] Arthur Harington Champernowne (1768 - 1819)
Other entries in Lake District, 1786
A View at Ambleside, near Sir Michael Fleming’s on the Road to Keswick
A View taken at Ambleside at the Head of Lake Windermere
Looking from Ambleside across Lake Windermere
A View near the Turnpike on the Way from Low Wood to Ambleside
Looking to the Mountains over the Head of Buttermere
A View at Low Wood, looking across the Head of Lake Windermere
Raven Crag and Part of Thirlmere
Fitzwilliam Fitzwilliam Museum
St John’s in the Vale, looking towards Grasmere
St John’s in the Vale looking towards Keswick
A View in St John’s in the Vale looking towards Keswick
On the Side of Lake Windermere, near the Turnpike
A View of Derwent Water looking towards Lodore Falls
A View from the Cascade in the Groves at Ambleside
At Ambleside coming from the Cascade in the Groves
A View of Rydal Water looking towards Rydal Hall
Elter Force, near Ambleside
National Gallery National Gallery of Victoria
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Comment
In the eighteenth century Derwent Water was sometimes known as Keswick Lake. Grange was a village a little south of the lake, a few hundred yards north of the Bowder Stone (FT509, FT510). Although Towne’s viewpoint is almost identical to FT501, the profile of mountains is quite different, here crowding the small village buildings. As in FT501, Towne has ignored the two bridges that give access to the village.