- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
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- Lake District Sketch
- Date
- ca. 1786/08
- Medium
- Unknown
- Inscription
-
- sheet, recto
- Numbered “7”
- Object Type
- Unknown
-
- Catalogue Number
- FT461
- Description Sources
- Paul Oppé records
Provenance
Descended from the artist to James White of Exeter (1744–1825) and thence to John Herman Merivale (1779–1844) and his descendants. Merivale’s granddaughter Emily Buckingham owned it in 1915, whereafter it is untraced.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Emily Harriet Buckingham (1853 - 1923), 1915
- James White (1744 - 1825), Exeter, 1816
- John Herman Merivale (1779 - 1844), 1825
Other entries in Lake District, 1786
A View at Ambleside
Manchester Museum & the Whitworth, University of Manchester
A View at Ambleside, near Sir Michael Fleming’s on the Road to Keswick
Tate Gallery
A View taken at Ambleside at the Head of Lake Windermere
Private Collection
Lake Windermere from Ambleside
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
Looking from Ambleside across Lake Windermere
Collection of BNY Mellon
Lake Windermere from near Low Wood
Yale Center for British Art
A View near the Turnpike on the Way from Low Wood to Ambleside
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
Looking to the Mountains over the Head of Buttermere
Untraced
Ambleside, taken behind the Inn
Bristol Museum and Art Gallery
A View of Lake Windermere
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
A View at Low Wood, looking across the Head of Lake Windermere
Private Collection
St John’s in the Vale, looking towards Grasmere
Untraced
St John’s in the Vale looking towards Keswick
Untraced
In St John’s in the Vale
Rhode Island Museum of Art, School of Design
A View in St John’s in the Vale looking towards Keswick
Leeds City Art Gallery
On the Side of Lake Windermere, near the Turnpike
Leeds City Art Gallery
Grange at the Head of Derwent Water
Yale Center for British Art
At Keswick, looking towards Skiddaw
Private Collection
A View of Derwent Water looking towards Lodore Falls
Untraced
A View of Derwent Water and Skiddaw
Leeds City Art Gallery
The Cascade in the Groves at Ambleside
Private Collection
A View from the Cascade in the Groves at Ambleside
Ashmolean Museum
The Cascade in the Groves at Ambleside
Untraced
The Cascade in the Groves at Ambleside
Tate Gallery
At Ambleside coming from the Cascade in the Groves
Untraced
A Rushing Stream, probably Stock Ghyll
National Museums Northern Ireland, Collection Ulster Museum
Rydal Water looking towards Grasmere
British Museum
A View of Rydal Water looking towards Rydal Hall
Towneley Hall Art Gallery and Museum
Skelwith Force and Lingmoor Fell
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
At Low Wood looking across Lake Windermere
Untraced
Footnotes
- 1 Paul Oppé records: notes, ca. 1915.
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Comment
Oppé saw number 7 of the Lake District series in Emily Buckingham’s collection on 16 July 1915, but it is otherwise unrecorded.1 Another drawing in the series is also numbered 7 (FT462), so it could be that this may come from a different series or else be a sketch that Towne did not complete (just as with FT455).