- Description
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- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
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- View near Exeter
- Date
- No date
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
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- image width 1016mm,
- image length 1270mm
- Object Type
- Oil painting
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- Catalogue Number
- FT653
- Description Sources
- Exhibition catalogue; Towne’s letter of 1815
- Associated People & Organisations
- Untraced
- Bibliography
- Timothy Wilcox, Francis Towne, Tate Publishing: London, 1997, p. 43
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Comment
For Towne’s reference to this picture in his 1815 letter, see the Comment at FT652, which gives the subject of this picture as a view near the village of Whitestone, a little north-east of Exeter, looking towards the River Exe. No preparatory study is known.