- Description
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- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
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- View going from Weesen to Glarus
- Date
- ca. 1781/09/01
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and ink, grey-brown wash
- Dimensions
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- image width 289mm,
- image length 470mm
- Support
- on paper watermarked "C&I HONIG" with stitch marks along the top edge
- Inscription
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- sheet, verso
- “View going from Wesen to Glaris No.23 September 1st. 1781. Light from the right hand in the Evening”
- in ink
- Inscription
-
- sheet, verso
- “View going to Glaris in the Canton of Glaris. Evening light from the right hand. September 1st. 1781”
- in pencil
- Object Type
- Monochrome wash
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- Catalogue Number
- FT365
- Description Sources
- Leger Galleries 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 (BP68). On 27 February 1935 Judith Merivale sold it to Agnew’s (no.11695) for £8, where on the same day it was bought by W. B. Dalton for £12 12s. In 1982 it was on sale at Leger Galleries, after which it is untraced.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Untraced
- Leger Galleries, London, 1982
- William B. Dalton, 27 February 1935, GBP 12 12s
- Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 27 February 1935, GBP 8, no.11695
- Judith Ann Merivale (1860 - 1945), Oxford, May 1915, BP68
- Maria Sophia Merivale (1853 - 1928), Oxford, May 1915, BP68
- John Herman Merivale (1779 - 1844), 1825
- James White (1744 - 1825), Exeter, 1816
- Exhibition History
- Annual Exhibition of Drawings, Thomas Agnew & Sons, 1935, no. 117
- Bibliography
- Timothy Wilcox, Francis Towne, Tate Publishing: London, 1997, p. 97
Other entries in C&I Honig Series: Northern Italy and Switzerland, August and September 1781
“Lago Torfi”, near Lugano
National Gallery National Gallery of Victoria
Waterfall between Chiavenna and Mount Splugen
In the Valley of the Grisons looking on Tusis
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Comment
Weesen is at the western end of Walensee, which Towne drew on 1 and 4 September (FT334, FT335). This is a view looking into the Glarus valley as he began his journey into it. John White Abbott made a copy of the left part of this drawing (FT829).