- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- Scene in the City of Exeter between the Quaygate and Westgate
- View Between The Quay Gate And West Gate Outside The City Walls
- Date
- 1791/09/16
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and brown ink, watercolour, scratching out
- Dimensions
-
- image width 200mm,
- image length 310mm
- Support
- two sheets of laid paper
- Inscription
-
- sheet, recto, lower right
- “F.Towne. / delt 1791”
- in brown ink
- Inscription
-
- sheet, recto
- colour indications all over: “redish/stone colour”, “old wall/burnt sienna” , “thatch”, “red wall”, “white”, “brown”, “white”, “old wall”
- Inscription
-
- sheet, verso
- This scene is in the City of Exeter / between the Quay Gate and / Westgate withoutside the / City Walls, drawn / on the Spot by / Francis Towne / Septr. 16. 1791”
- in brown ink
- Object Type
- Watercolour
-
- Collection
-
- (50/2002)
- Catalogue Number
- FT568
- Description Sources
- Examination; Sotheby's (image)
Provenance
Untraced until 1951 when owned by Harriett C. Loraine. It was sold at Christie’s on 19 February 1954, lot 5, to the Fine Art Society for £210, who sold it for £285 on 4 May 1954 to Colonel C. Dawnay [presumably Montgomery’s aide-de-camp Lieutenant Colonel Christopher “Kit” Dawnay of Longparish; also 866]. It was sold by “a gentleman” at Sothebys on 21 March 2002, lot 116, for £18,000 to the current owner, the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery, Exeter, 21 March 2002, GBP 18000, 50/2002
- Sotheby's, London, London, 21 March 2002, lot 116
- Christopher Dawnay, 4 May 1954, GBP 285
- The Fine Art Society, London, London, 4 May 1954, GBP 210
- Christie's, London, London, 19 February 1954, lot 5
- Harriett C. Loraine, 1951
- Exhibition History
- Three Exeter Artists of the Eighteenth Century: Francis Hayman RA, Francis Towne, John White Abbott, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, 1951, no. 53
- Bibliography
- Timothy Wilcox, Francis Towne, Tate Publishing: London, 1997, p. 128
- Sam Smiles & Michael Pidgley, The Perfection of England - Artist Visitors to Devon c.1750-1870 [an exhibition catalogue], University of Plymouth: Plymouth, 1995, pp. 57, 60, 97
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A Lane in the Village of Heavitree, near Exeter
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Comment
This is a view at the southern end of Exeter just outside the city walls (which are visible in the top-right corner), looking up Higher Leat. The building on the left is Weeks Mill. The yellow sky from the west indicates an evening view.