- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- Lodore Falls
- Date
- 1786/08/23
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and ink, watercolour
- Dimensions
-
- image width 495mm,
- image length 419mm
- Support
- two sheets of laid paper with a vertical crease mark down the centre
- Inscription
-
- sheet, recto, lower left
- “Lowdore / F Towne / delt 1786”
- Inscription
-
- sheet, verso
- “Lowdore / light from the left hand 11 OClock / August 23.1786”
- in ink over pencil
- Object Type
- Watercolour
-
- Catalogue Number
- FT508
- Description Sources
- Examination; Wilcox 1997 (image)
Provenance
Untraced until sold at Sotheby’s on 27 or 28 June 1922 for £4 10s. to Bradshaw. Before 1952 it was in the collection of Norman Dakeyne Newall (1888–1952), whose heirs sold it at Christie’s on 13 December 1979, lot 70, for £16,000. In 1997 was in the collection of Barings ING, whereafter it is untraced.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Untraced
- I. N. G. Barings, 1997
- Private Collection, 13 December 1979, GBP 16600
- Christie's, London, London, 13 December 1979, lot 70
- Norman Dakeyne Newall (1888 - 1952)
- Private Collection, 28 June 1922, GBP 4 10s
Sold to to “Bradshaw” - Sotheby's, London, London, 27 June 1922
Other entries in Lake District, 1786
Francis Towne
A View at Ambleside, near Sir Michael Fleming’s on the Road to Keswick
A View at Ambleside, near Sir Michael Fleming’s on the Road to Keswick
Francis Towne
A View taken at Ambleside at the Head of Lake Windermere
A View taken at Ambleside at the Head of Lake Windermere
Francis Towne
Looking from Ambleside across Lake Windermere
Looking from Ambleside across Lake Windermere
Francis Towne
A View near the Turnpike on the Way from Low Wood to Ambleside
A View near the Turnpike on the Way from Low Wood to Ambleside
Francis Towne
Looking to the Mountains over the Head of Buttermere
Looking to the Mountains over the Head of Buttermere
Francis Towne
A View at Low Wood, looking across the Head of Lake Windermere
A View at Low Wood, looking across the Head of Lake Windermere
Francis Towne
Raven Crag and Part of Thirlmere
Raven Crag and Part of Thirlmere
Fitzwilliam Fitzwilliam Museum
Francis Towne
St John’s in the Vale, looking towards Grasmere
St John’s in the Vale, looking towards Grasmere
Francis Towne
St John’s in the Vale looking towards Keswick
St John’s in the Vale looking towards Keswick
Francis Towne
A View in St John’s in the Vale looking towards Keswick
A View in St John’s in the Vale looking towards Keswick
Francis Towne
On the Side of Lake Windermere, near the Turnpike
On the Side of Lake Windermere, near the Turnpike
Francis Towne
A View of Derwent Water looking towards Lodore Falls
A View of Derwent Water looking towards Lodore Falls
Francis Towne
A View from the Cascade in the Groves at Ambleside
A View from the Cascade in the Groves at Ambleside
Francis Towne
At Ambleside coming from the Cascade in the Groves
At Ambleside coming from the Cascade in the Groves
Francis Towne
A View of Rydal Water looking towards Rydal Hall
A View of Rydal Water looking towards Rydal Hall
Francis Towne
Elter Force, near Ambleside
Elter Force, near Ambleside
National Gallery National Gallery of Victoria
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Comment
Lodore Falls, where the water of Watendlath Beck falls 120 feet, are at the southern end of Derwent Water.
The larger of the two sheets on which Towne has made this drawing is of the same type that he used for his three views of Derwent Water (FT505, FT506, FT507). Lodore Falls are visible in FT505 and FT506.