- Description
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- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
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- A Rushing Stream, probably Stock Ghyll
- Trees and Rushing Stream
- Date
- ca. 1786/08
- Medium
- Pencil (?), pen and brown ink, watercolour
- Dimensions
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- image width 269mm,
- image length 379mm
- Inscription
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- sheet, verso
- “Light from the Right Hand”
- Object Type
- Watercolour
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- Collection
- Catalogue Number
- FT519
- Description Sources
- Museum records; 1989 Ulster catalogue (image)
Provenance
This drawing was bought (in 1936 according to the museum’s records) at the Fine Art Society by the current owner, Ulster Museum (no.864). Probably this drawing or FT523 is BP156, sold by Judith Merivale (1860–1945) to Squire Gallery in February 1935 for £14. BP156 was drawn on Italian paper of the same size as this drawing and had no date or title inscribed. The back of the drawing is inscribed “Louisa”, presumably indicating it was owned by Judith Merivale’s aunt, Louisa Ann Merivale (1819–85), who lived at Barton Place, or Louisa Buckingham (b.1850), sister of Emily Buckingham.
- Associated People & Organisations
- National Museums Northern Ireland, Collection Ulster Museum, Belfast, 1936, BELUM.U864
- The Fine Art Society, London, London, 1936
- Squire Gallery, London, February 1935, GBP 14
- Judith Ann Merivale (1860 - 1945), Oxford, May 1915, BP156
- Maria Sophia Merivale (1853 - 1928), Oxford, May 1915, BP156
- [?] Louisa Buckingham (1850)
The back of the drawing is inscribed “Louisa” - [?] Louisa Ann Merivale (1819 - 1885)
The back of the drawing is inscribed “Louisa” - John Herman Merivale (1779 - 1844), 1825
- James White (1744 - 1825), Exeter, 1816
- Exhibition History
- An Exhibition of Early English Water-Colour Drawings, Fine Art Society, 1935, no. 58 as 'Trees and Rushing Stream'
- An Exhibition of Early English Water-Colour Drawings, Fine Art Society, 1935, no. 19 as 'Trees and Rushing Stream'
- Portraits and Prospects: British and Irish Drawings and Watercolours from the Collection of The Ulster Museum, Ulster Museum, 1989, no. 16
- Bibliography
- Timothy Wilcox, Francis Towne, Tate Publishing: London, 1997, p. 109
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