- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- A View at Low Wood, looking across the Head of Lake Windermere
- Date
- 1791/07/07
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and brown and grey inks, watercolour, gum
- Dimensions
-
- image width 152mm,
- image length 236mm
- Mount
- mounted by the artist (fig 484b; the mount has now been removed)
- Inscription
-
- sheet, recto, lower right
- “No 28 / F.Towne / delt. 1780”
- in brown ink
- Inscription
-
- artist's mount, verso
- “No.28 / Taken after the sun was down. / A View at Low Wood looking across the head of the Lake of Windermere / Westmoreland, to the Langdale Pikes / Drawn on the Spot by / Francis Towne / August 16th 1786 / London / Leicester Square / July 7th 1791”
- now detached from the drawing
- Object Type
- Watercolour
-
- Catalogue Number
- FT484
- Description Sources
- Examination; Christie's records (image)
Provenance
Presumably bought from the artist by Arthur Harington Champernowne (1768–1819), as his great-great-granddaughter Katharine Iris Paull of Chichester (see Comment at FT602) sold it at Sotheby’s on 30 July 1952, lot 13, for £175 to Agnews’ (no.6968), who bought it on behalf of Sir William Worsley, Bt (1890–1973), whose family sold it at Christie’s on 5 June 2003, lot 47, for £35,000. It was in a “private collection” in November 2005.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Private Collection, 5 June 2003, GBP 35000
- Christie's, London, London, 5 June 2003, GBP 35000, lot 47
- Sir William Worsley (1890 - 1973), 30 July 1952
- Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 30 July 1952, GBP 175, no.6968
Acquired on behalf of Sir William Worsley Bt - Sotheby's, London, London, 30 July 1952, lot 13
- Katharine Iris Paull, Chichester
- Arthur Harington Champernowne (1768 - 1819), 1791
- Exhibition History
- Exhibition of Original Drawings at the Gallery, No.20 Lower Brook Street, Grosvenor Square, 20 Lower Brook Street, 1805, no. 69 or 70 as 'A View from Low-Wood'
- Watercolours by Francis Towne, City Art Gallery, 1950
- English Watercolours from Four Yorkshire Houses 1660-1860, Scarborough Art Gallery, 1950
- Francis Towne and his Friends, John Spink at Colnaghi, 2005, no. 6
- Bibliography
- Adrian Bury, Francis Towne - Lone Star of Water-Colour Painting, Charles Skilton: London, 1962, pp. 95, 143
- Sir William Worsley, Early English Water-Colours at Hovingham Hall: 1963, p. 13
Other entries in Lake District, 1786
Francis Towne
A View at Ambleside, near Sir Michael Fleming’s on the Road to Keswick
A View at Ambleside, near Sir Michael Fleming’s on the Road to Keswick
Francis Towne
A View taken at Ambleside at the Head of Lake Windermere
A View taken at Ambleside at the Head of Lake Windermere
Francis Towne
Looking from Ambleside across Lake Windermere
Looking from Ambleside across Lake Windermere
Francis Towne
A View near the Turnpike on the Way from Low Wood to Ambleside
A View near the Turnpike on the Way from Low Wood to Ambleside
Francis Towne
Looking to the Mountains over the Head of Buttermere
Looking to the Mountains over the Head of Buttermere
Francis Towne
A View at Low Wood, looking across the Head of Lake Windermere
A View at Low Wood, looking across the Head of Lake Windermere
Francis Towne
Raven Crag and Part of Thirlmere
Raven Crag and Part of Thirlmere
Fitzwilliam Fitzwilliam Museum
Francis Towne
St John’s in the Vale, looking towards Grasmere
St John’s in the Vale, looking towards Grasmere
Francis Towne
St John’s in the Vale looking towards Keswick
St John’s in the Vale looking towards Keswick
Francis Towne
A View in St John’s in the Vale looking towards Keswick
A View in St John’s in the Vale looking towards Keswick
Francis Towne
On the Side of Lake Windermere, near the Turnpike
On the Side of Lake Windermere, near the Turnpike
Francis Towne
A View of Derwent Water looking towards Lodore Falls
A View of Derwent Water looking towards Lodore Falls
Francis Towne
A View from the Cascade in the Groves at Ambleside
A View from the Cascade in the Groves at Ambleside
Francis Towne
At Ambleside coming from the Cascade in the Groves
At Ambleside coming from the Cascade in the Groves
Francis Towne
A View of Rydal Water looking towards Rydal Hall
A View of Rydal Water looking towards Rydal Hall
Francis Towne
Elter Force, near Ambleside
Elter Force, near Ambleside
National Gallery National Gallery of Victoria
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Comment
This is a view looking west over Windermere from outside the Low Wood Inn, a popular destination for eighteenth-century travellers. The Langdale Pikes are prominent in the central distance, to the right of Lingmoor Fell.
Towne has misdated the drawing 1780 instead of 1786.