- Description
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- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
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- Part of Plymouth below the Hoe
- Date
- 1815/08/30
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and grey ink, watercolour
- Dimensions
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- image height 140mm,
- image width 229mm
- Inscription
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- sheet, verso
- “Part of the Town of Plymouth below the Hoe 30 Aug 1815”
- Part of
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- 1815 Sketchbook
- Object Type
- Watercolour
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- Collection
- Catalogue Number
- FT770
- Description Sources
- Agnew's records; 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. Merivale’s granddaughters Maria Sophia Merivale (1853–1928) and Judith Ann Merivale (1860–1945), both of Oxford, inherited the drawing in May 1915 as part of a sketchbook containing FT765 to FT786, which they gave to their cousin Mary Ann Loveband (b.1865, alive in 1951), who sold the book to Agnew’s on 17 May 1938 for £60. On 2 March 1939 Agnew’s (no.2692) sold it for £9 to the National Art Collections Fund who gave it to the current owner, Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery (Inv. 1939.06).
- Associated People & Organisations
- Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, Plymouth, 1939, Inv.1939.06
- National Art Collections Fund, 2 March 1939, GBP 9
- Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 17 May 1938, GBP 60, no.2692
- Mary Ann Loveband (1865 - alive in 1951)
- Judith Ann Merivale (1860 - 1945), Oxford, May 1915
Inherited as part of a sketchbook containing FT765 to FT786. - Maria Sophia Merivale (1853 - 1928), Oxford, May 1915
Inherited as part of a sketchbook containing FT765 to FT786. - John Herman Merivale (1779 - 1844), 1825
- James White (1744 - 1825), Exeter, 1816
- Bibliography
- Adrian Bury, Francis Towne - Lone Star of Water-Colour Painting, Charles Skilton: London, 1962, p. 135
Other entries in 1815 Sketchbook
On the Road over the Moor to Tavistock
Maurice Dear
Fort Olda with Part of the Abbey, Tavistock
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Comment
The Hoe is a promenade in the south of Plymouth. Although this work is dated 31 August, a day after the two views of Tothill that are numbered 5 and 7, Agnew’s placed it sixth in the book, between those two works, when they described the sketchbook in 1938.