- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- Ugbrooke Park
- View in Devonshire
- Date
- 1780
- Medium
- Oil on wood
- Dimensions
-
- image width 508mm,
- image length 699mm
- Inscription
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- sheet, recto, lower left
- “F.Towne / Pinxt 1780”
- Inscription
-
- verso
- “For the Rt. Hon. Lord Clifford, Ugbrooke Park”
- Object Type
- Oil painting
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- Catalogue Number
- FT159
- Description Sources
- Examination; Witt Library; Tate catalogue
Provenance
Commissioned by Hugh, 4th Baron Clifford of Chudleigh (1726–1783), and descended to the present owner.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Private Collection
- Hugh Clifford, 4th Baron Clifford of Chudleigh (1726 - 1783), Chudleigh, Devon
- Exhibition History
- [?] The Exhibition of the Royal Academy, Royal Academy of Arts, 1780, no. 21 or 24 as 'View in Devonshire'
- unidentified exhibition but very probably the display for which George Pycroft wrote Short Biographies of Devonshire Artists. Notes Presented to the Committee by George Pycroft, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, 1885
- Francis Towne, Tate Gallery; Leeds City Art Gallery, 24 June 1997 - 4 January 1998, no. 14
- Bibliography
- Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, Sixth Report on Works of Art In Devonshire in Transactions of the Devonshire Association: Plymouth, 1885, p. 155
- George Oliver, Cliffordiana, T.Howe: Exeter, 1830, p. 92
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Bridge over the River Camel at Wadebridge, Cornwall
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Comment
This picture depicts the Lower Water and the small artificial waterfall that was created between it and the Upper Water. Joseph Reeve described this waterfall in his 1776 poem “Ugbrooke Park”:
The preparatory study is not known.