- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
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- Near Ambleside
- Near Ambleside at the head of Lake Windermere
- Date
- 1786/02/17
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and grey and brown inks, watercolour, gum
- Dimensions
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- image width 157mm,
- image length 238mm
- Mount
- mounted by the artist on laid paper measuring 222 x 302 mm and bearing a watermark that includes indistinct lettering
- Inscription
-
- sheet, recto, lower left
- “F.Towne / delt / [“1786” scratched out] No.4”
- in brown ink
- Inscription
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- artist's mount, verso
- “No 4 / Near Ambleside / drawn on the spot / [“August 7th 1786” scratched out] / by / Francis Towne”
- in dark brown ink
- Object Type
- Watercolour
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- Collection
- Catalogue Number
- FT458
- Description Sources
- Examination; Museum records (image)
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. On 17 February 1961 it was sold by a Mrs Merivale to Agnew’s (no.1128) with FT468, FT481, FT512, FT581. She was probably Josephine Merivale, wife of Dr Walter Herman Hodgson Merivale (ca. 1918–1971), and the drawing was probably inherited from his father (?Herman Walter Merivale, b.1898), who was given them by John Herman Merivale’s granddaughter, Judith Ann Merivale (1860–1945); however, there is no positive evidence to chart the descent of this particular work to Mrs Merivale in 1961. On 8 March 1961 Agnew’s sold the drawing for £400 to Paul Mellon (1907–1999), who gave it to the current owner, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven (B1977.14.6295; gift to Yale, December 1977).
- Associated People & Organisations
- Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, December 1977, B1977.14.6295
- Mr Paul Mellon (1907 - 1999), 8 March 1961, GBP 400
- Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 17 February 1961, no.1128
- Josephine Merivale
- Dr Walter Herman Hodgson Merivale (ca. 1918 - 1971)
- [?] Herman Walter Merivale (1898)
- [?] 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
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