- Description
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- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
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- Totnes and Dartington
- Date
- No date
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and black ink, watercolour
- Dimensions
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- image width 203mm,
- image length 254mm
- Support
- laid paper with an indistinct watermark
- Inscription
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- sheet, verso
- “from 6 O Clock in the evening till 7”
- in black ink
- Object Type
- Watercolour
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- Catalogue Number
- FT634
- Description Sources
- Examination (image)
Provenance
Bequeathed by the artist in 1816 to James White of Exeter (1744–1825), on whose death it passed to 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 (BP223) and by 1945 it was on sale at the Fine Art Society, where on 24 April 1945 it was bought for £36 15s. by J. Hawkesley Elliott of Sheffield (d.1977/78), who or whose heirs were probably the vendors at Christie’s on 22 November 1977, lot 116, for £330. It was sold again at Bearne’s in Exeter in March 2003, lot 345.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Private Collection, March 2003
- Bearne's, Exeter, March 2003, lot 345
- Private Collection, 22 November 1977, GBP 330
- Christie's, London, London, 22 November 1977, lot 116
- Joseph Hawksley Elliot (1884 - 1978), Sheffield, 24 April 1945
- The Fine Art Society, London, London, 24 April 1945, GBP 36.15s
- Judith Ann Merivale (1860 - 1945), Oxford, May 1915, BP223
- Maria Sophia Merivale (1853 - 1928), Oxford, May 1915, BP223
- John Herman Merivale (1779 - 1844), 1825
- James White (1744 - 1825), Exeter, 1816
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