- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- Mount Batten and Mount Edgcumbe from Teat’s Hill, near Plymouth
- Date
- 1810
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and grey ink, watercolour
- Dimensions
-
- image width 170mm,
- image width 510mm
- Support
- two sheets
- Inscription
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- sheet, recto, lower right
- “5 & 6”
- Inscription
-
- sheet, verso
- “Mount Batten, Mount Edgcumbe etc View from Teat’s Hill”
- Part of
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- 1810 Sketchbook
- Object Type
- Watercolour
-
- Catalogue Number
- FT707
- Description Sources
- Sotheby's records (image)
Provenance
Bequeathed by Francis Towne 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 sketchbook containing FT689 to FT714, much or all of which by 1963 was owned by Mr and Mrs Sutton of New Zealand. On 19 June 1963 they sold seventeen drawings from the book, including this one, to the Fine Art Society (no.7772) for £3,750. This drawing (7772/10) was sold for £700 to Sir John Witt (1907–1982), whose heir, “a lady”, sold it at Sotheby’s on 11 April 1991, lot 72, for £8,400, whereafter it is untraced.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Untraced
- Private Collection, 11 April 1991, GBP 8400
- Sotheby's, London, London, 11 April 1991, lot 72
- Sir John Witt (1907 - 1982), GBP 700
- The Fine Art Society, London, London, 19 June 1963, GBP 3750, no.7772/10
- Mr & Mrs Sutton, New Zealand, June 1963
- Judith Ann Merivale (1860 - 1945), Oxford, May 1915
The drawing was inherited within a sketchbook containing FT689 to FT714. - Maria Sophia Merivale (1853 - 1928), Oxford, May 1915
The drawing was inherited within a sketchbook containing FT689 to FT714. - John Herman Merivale (1779 - 1844), 1825
- James White (1744 - 1825), Exeter, 1816
Other entries in 1810 Sketchbook
The Breidden Hills going from Shrewsbury to Welshpool
The Forest of Radnor and the Black Mountains
Mount Batten and Mount Edgcumbe from Teat’s Hill, near Plymouth
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Comment
Teats Hill is on the east side of Plymouth Sound, overlooking the city, whose edge is visible in the far right of the drawing (the citadel is also far right). The view looks south down the Sound to Mount Edgcumbe, with the island of Mount Batten towards the left.