- Description
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- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
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- The Cascade of Terni
- Date
- No date
- Medium
- (?) Oil on canvas
- Object Type
- Oil painting
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- Versions
- The Cascade of Terni
- Catalogue Number
- FT300a
- Description Sources
- Jones 1890
Provenance
Bequeathed by the artist to James White of Exeter (1744–1825), on whose death it reverted to Towne’s residuary legatee John Herman Merivale (1779–1844) and his successors. In 1890 it was in the possession of William Buckingham, the husband of Merivale’s daughter Elizabeth (1822–92).
- Associated People & Organisations
- Untraced
- William Buckingham, 1890
- John Herman Merivale (1779 - 1844), 1825
- James White (1744 - 1825), Exeter, 1816
- Bibliography
- Winslow Jones, 'Francis Towne Landscape Painter', Notes and Gleanings: a monthly magazine devoted chiefly to subjects connected with the counties of Devon and Cornwall, ed. William Cotton (ed.), No. 26: Exeter, 1890, p. 18
Other entries in Oil Paintings, 1784–1801
Footnotes
- 1 Jones 1890, p.18.
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Comment
Winslow Jones described “a painting of the falls of Terni, which was given to Mr.William Buckingham” and was “dark and heavy”.1