- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- A View at Pynes
- Date
- 1778
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and grey ink, brown wash
- Dimensions
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- image width 271mm,
- image length 372mm
- Mount
- mounted by the artist on paper watermarked "J WHATMAN"
- Inscription
-
- sheet, recto, lower left
- "F.Towne. 1778."
- Inscription
-
- artist's mount, verso
- "A View at Pines the seat of Sir Stafford Northcote Bart. near Exeter / Francis Towne 1778"
- Object Type
- Monochrome wash
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- Collection
-
- (T08527)
- Versions
- A View at Pynes, after Francis Towne
- Catalogue Number
- FT143
- Description Sources
- Author's examination of the object
Provenance
Untraced until bought by Paul Oppé (1878–1957; no.450) on 27 June 1914, lot 201, for £1 14s., among some 1770s Italian landscape drawings by John Downman. Oppé’s descendants sold the drawing in 1996 with the rest of Paul Oppé’s collection to its present owner, the Tate Gallery, London (T08527).
- Associated People & Organisations
- Adolph Paul Oppé (1878 - 1957)
- Tate
- Exhibition History
- 76th Annual Exhibition of Water-Colour Drawings, Thomas Agnew & Sons, 1949, no. 35
- Exhibition of Works from The Paul Oppe Collection, Royal Academy, 1958, no. 102
- Bibliography
- Adrian Bury, Francis Towne - Lone Star of Water-Colour Painting, Charles Skilton: London, 1962, p. 147
- Paul Oppé, 'Francis Towne, Landscape Painter', The Walpole Society: London, 1920, p. 105
- Timothy Wilcox, Francis Towne, Tate Publishing: London, 1997, p. 156
Other entries in West Country Sketches, 1772–80
Francis Towne
A View of Exeter, taken between Exwick and Cowley Bridge
A View of Exeter, taken between Exwick and Cowley Bridge
Francis Towne
A View of Berry Pomeroy Castle within the Gateway
A View of Berry Pomeroy Castle within the Gateway
Francis Towne
A View going up from the Lake in Peamore Park
A View going up from the Lake in Peamore Park
Francis Towne
A View from the Hill above the Lake at Peamore
A View from the Hill above the Lake at Peamore
Francis Towne
A View near Exwell, looking towards Topsham
A View near Exwell, looking towards Topsham
Francis Towne
A View of the Waterfall at Lidford in the County of Devon
A View of the Waterfall at Lidford in the County of Devon
Footnotes
- 1 Quoted Gray 1995, p.186.
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Comment
Pynes, a house in the Cowley Bridge district north of Exeter very near Barton Place, was the seat of Sir Stafford Northcote (1762–1851), who later married Jaquetta Baring. A copy of this drawing was made in 1778 by Ann Sanders (FT859), who, as Mrs Fortescue, commissioned several views of Rome from Towne in the mid-1780s. According to Revd John Swete in 1789, Pynes “within the last ten years has undergone very great changes and by the modern style of improvement has been shown off to wonderful advantage”.1