- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
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- Tothill
- Date
- 1815/08/31
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and grey ink, watercolour
- Dimensions
-
- image height 140mm,
- image width 229mm
- Inscription
-
- sheet, verso
- “No.5. / Tothill / From 11–12 oclock Aug.31st 1815 / Francis Towne [?]”
- in brown ink, showing through to the recto
- Part of
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- 1815 Sketchbook
- Object Type
- Watercolour
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- Catalogue Number
- FT769
- Description Sources
- Examination; Christie's 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 4 March 1939 Agnew’s (no.2691) sold this drawing to Major Leonard Maurice Edward Dent (1888–1987) for £10. It was on sale again at Agnew’s in 1973, where it was bought by George Goyder (1908–1997), whose heirs sold it at Christie’s on 20 November 2003, lot 52, for £6,000, presumably to John Spink, who sold it in 2005 (the price advertised was £31,000).
- Associated People & Organisations
- Private Collection
- John Spink, 2005
- Christie's, London, London, 20 November 2003, lot 52
- George Goyder (1908 - 1997), 1973
- Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 1973
- Major Leonard Maurice Edward Dent (1888 - 1987), GBP 10
Agnew's sold this drawing to Major Leonard Maurice Edward Dent. - Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 17 May 1938, GBP 60, no.2691
- 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
Other entries in 1815 Sketchbook
On the Road over the Moor to Tavistock
Maurice Dear
Fort Olda with Part of the Abbey, Tavistock
Footnotes
- 1 Donn 1965, pl.10a.
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Comment
Tothill is an area north-east of Plymouth.1