- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- A South View in the New Forest
- Date
- 1798/09/11
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and grey ink, watercolour
- Dimensions
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- image width 180mm,
- image length 490mm
- Support
- two sheets
- Mount
- mounted by the artist
- Inscription
-
- sheet, recto, lower left
- “No1 / F Towne delt 1798”
- Inscription
-
- sheet, recto
- indistinct colour notes
- Inscription
-
- artist's mount, verso
- “No1 a South View in the New Forest / Francis Towne delt Septr 11, 1798 / From 10 till 3 o Clock”
- Object Type
- Watercolour
-
- Catalogue Number
- FT599
- Description Sources
- Leger records (image); Bury 1962
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. By 1962 it was owned by his great-granddaughter Joyce Merivale Loveband (b.1895, alive in 1981) and she sold it at Sotheby’s on 16 July 1981, lot 92, for £8,500. It is thereafter untraced apart from its exhibition at Leger Galleries in 1988.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Untraced
- Leger Galleries, London, 1988
- Sotheby's, London, London, 16 July 1981, GBP 8500, lot 92
- Joyce Merivale Loveband (1895), 1962
- John Herman Merivale (1779 - 1844), 1825
- James White (1744 - 1825), Exeter, 1816
- Exhibition History
- Three Exeter Artists of the Eighteenth Century: Francis Hayman RA, Francis Towne, John White Abbott, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, 1951, no. 54
- The Fitch Collection A Record of the Major English Watercolours and Drawings Collected by Dr Marc Fitch, Leger Galleries, 1988, no. 5
- Bibliography
- Adrian Bury, Francis Towne - Lone Star of Water-Colour Painting, Charles Skilton: London, 1962, p. 150
- Timothy Wilcox, Francis Towne, Tate Publishing: London, 1997, p. 136
Other entries in London, Hampshire and Surrey, ca. 1782-1801
Francis Towne
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Comment
The inclusion of colour notes indicates that Towne coloured the drawing in the studio or at some place other than that depicted.