- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
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- Ullswater
- Ulswater, near Patterdale
- Date
- ca. 1786/08
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and black and brown inks, watercolour
- Dimensions
-
- image width 260mm,
- image length 380mm
- Inscription
-
- sheet, verso
- “Light from the Left hand / Ulswater”
- Object Type
- Watercolour
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- Catalogue Number
- FT526
- Description Sources
- Examination Gainsborough’s House (image); Sotheby's records
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 (BP151). In 1938 Judith Merivale sold it to Agnew’s for £8, and it was sold at Sotheby’s on 19 March 1981, lot 105, for £3,200. In 2012 it was exhibited at Gainsborough’s House, Sudbury, as from an English private collection.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Private Collection
- Sotheby's, London, London, 19 March 1981, GBP 3200, lot 105
- Judith Ann Merivale (1860 - 1945), Oxford, May 1915, BP151
- Maria Sophia Merivale (1853 - 1928), Oxford, May 1915, BP151
- John Herman Merivale (1779 - 1844), 1825
- James White (1744 - 1825), Exeter, 1816
- Exhibition History
- [?] Exhibition of Original Drawings at the Gallery, No.20 Lower Brook Street, Grosvenor Square, 20 Lower Brook Street, 1805, no. 53, 54 or 55 as 'Ulswater, or Ulswater, near Patterdale'
- Home and Abroad: Drawings and Watercolours from a Private Collection, Gainsborough's House, 2012
Other entries in Lake District, 1786
A View at Ambleside, near Sir Michael Fleming’s on the Road to Keswick
A View taken at Ambleside at the Head of Lake Windermere
Looking from Ambleside across Lake Windermere
A View near the Turnpike on the Way from Low Wood to Ambleside
Looking to the Mountains over the Head of Buttermere
A View at Low Wood, looking across the Head of Lake Windermere
Raven Crag and Part of Thirlmere
Fitzwilliam Fitzwilliam Museum
St John’s in the Vale, looking towards Grasmere
St John’s in the Vale looking towards Keswick
A View in St John’s in the Vale looking towards Keswick
On the Side of Lake Windermere, near the Turnpike
A View of Derwent Water looking towards Lodore Falls
A View from the Cascade in the Groves at Ambleside
At Ambleside coming from the Cascade in the Groves
A View of Rydal Water looking towards Rydal Hall
Elter Force, near Ambleside
National Gallery National Gallery of Victoria
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Comment
Ullswater is a long lake west of Keswick, on the road between Ambleside and Penrith. This is a view looking south-west standing on Pooley Bridge near Penrith.
FT526 is suggested as an 1805 exhibit merely on the grounds that there were three Ullswater pictures on display and only two other finished views of Ullswater are known (FT493, FT499).