- Description
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- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
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- Lower Water, Ugbrooke Park
- Date
- 1780
- Medium
- Pen and black ink, grey wash
- Dimensions
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- image width 381mm,
- image length 540mm
- Mount
- mounted by the artist
- Inscription
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- sheet, recto, lower centre
- “F.Towne delt. 1780”
- Object Type
- Monochrome wash
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- Catalogue Number
- FT149
- Description Sources
- Witt Library (image); 1997 Tate catalogue
Provenance
Commissioned by Hugh, 4th Baron Clifford of Chudleigh (1726–1783), and descended to the present owner.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Private Collection
- [?] Hugh Clifford, 4th Baron Clifford of Chudleigh (1726 - 1783), Chudleigh, Devon, 1780
- Exhibition History
- [?] Three Exeter Artists of the Eighteenth Century: Francis Hayman RA, Francis Towne, John White Abbott, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, 1951, no. 68
- Francis Towne, Tate Gallery; Leeds City Art Gallery, 24 June 1997 - 4 January 1998, no. 12
- Bibliography
- Adrian Bury, Francis Towne - Lone Star of Water-Colour Painting, Charles Skilton: London, 1962, p. 140
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Comment
This is the lowest of three lakes at Ugbrooke, known as Lower Water. The study for this drawing is not known.