- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- Near Dunsford Bridge
- Date
- ca. 1791
- Medium
- Unknown
- Dimensions
-
- image width 298mm,
- image length 330mm
- Inscription
-
- sheet, recto
- signed and dated “1791”
- Inscription
-
- artist's mount, verso
- “Near Dunsford Bridge” and “London Leicester Square June 20th 1791”
- Object Type
- Unknown
-
- Catalogue Number
- FT570
- Description Sources
- Agnew’s records; Sotheby’s records; Leger records (image)
Provenance
The drawing was sold at Sotheby’s on 8 February 1956, lot 30, for £195 to Leger Galleries, and again at Sotheby’s on 5 June 2008, lot 182. It was possibly on sale at Agnew’s ca. 1939–1940.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Untraced
- Sotheby's, London, London, 5 June 2008, lot 182
- Leger Galleries, London, 8 February 1956, GBP 195
- Sotheby's, London, London, 8 February 1956, lot 30
- [?] Thomas Agnew & Sons, 1939
Other entries in Canonteign, Chudleigh, and Dunsford, 1783–1803
Revisions & Feedback
The website will be updated from time to time and, when changes are made, a PDF of the previous version of each page will be archived here for consultation and citation.
Please help us to improve this catalogue
If you have information, a correction or any other suggestions to improve this catalogue, please contact us.
Comment
The inscription on the mount indicates that this drawing was mounted at Towne’s London home in 1791, along with several sketches from the 1786 Lake District tour (such as FT466, FT479, FT484, FT485).