- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
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- Looking to the Mountains over the Head of Buttermere
- Date
- 1786/08/22
- Medium
- Pencil, watercolour
- Dimensions
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- image width 152mm,
- image length 229mm
- Inscription
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- sheet, verso
- “Light from the right hand 5 O Clock / Looking towards the mountains over the head of Buttermere / August 22nd 1786 / F.Towne. No.15.”
- in pencil
- Part of
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- Partially-disbound sketchbook sold by Judith Merivale to H. B. Milling of Squire Gallery
- Object Type
- Watercolour
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- Catalogue Number
- FT470
- Description Sources
- Paul Oppé records
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 within a partially disbound sketchbook containing FT455, FT462, FT470, FT471, FT472, FT475, FT476, FT477, FT478, FT480, FT494, FT495, FT496. In February 1945 Judith Merivale sold the book to H. B. Milling of Squire Gallery for £25 and the drawing is thereafter untraced.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Untraced
- Horace Bernard Milling (1898 - 1954), February 1945, GBP 25
- Judith Ann Merivale (1860 - 1945), Oxford, May 1915
- Maria Sophia Merivale (1853 - 1928), Oxford, May 1915
- John Herman Merivale (1779 - 1844), 1825
- James White (1744 - 1825), Exeter, 1816
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
This is the third of three drawings of Buttermere made on 22 August. Towne drew FT494 at 12 noon and FT495 at 1 o’clock. Within the sketchbook it came after FT462 and before FT471, which continues onto the verso of this drawing.