- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
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- A View from the Cascade in the Groves at Ambleside
- Date
- 1786/08/10
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and brown ink, watercolour
- Dimensions
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- image width 377mm,
- image length 265mm
- Mount
- mounted by the artist on paper watermarked with a fleur-de-lis and coronet
- Inscription
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- sheet, recto, lower right
- “F.Towne / delt. 1786”
- in brown ink
- Inscription
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- artist's mount, verso
- “A View from the Cascade in the Grove at / Ambleside the Head of the Lake of / Windermere drawn on the Spot / by / Francis Towne August 10th. 1786 / NB The paper this is drawn on I brought / myself from Rome”
- Object Type
- Watercolour
-
- Collection
-
- (no.1823)
- Catalogue Number
- FT515
- Description Sources
- Examination; 1997 Tate catalogue (image)
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. Merivale’s granddaughters Maria Sophia Merivale (1853–1928) and Judith Ann Merivale (1860–1945), both of Oxford, inherited the drawing in May 1915 (BP140) and gave it in 1922 to the current owner, the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (no.1823).
- Associated People & Organisations
- Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1922, no.1823
- Judith Ann Merivale (1860 - 1945), Oxford, May 1915, BP140
- Maria Sophia Merivale (1853 - 1928), Oxford, May 1915, BP140
- John Herman Merivale (1779 - 1844), 1825
- James White (1744 - 1825), Exeter, 1816
- Exhibition History
- Exhibition of Original Drawings at the Gallery, No.20 Lower Brook Street, Grosvenor Square, 20 Lower Brook Street, 1805, no. 96 or 97 as 'Cascade in the Groves'
- British Watercolours A Golden Age 1750-1850, J.B. Speed Art Museum, 1977, no. 21
- Eighteenth Century Master Drawings from the Ashmolean, Baltimore Museum of Art; Minneapolis Institute of Art; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth; Cincinnati Art Museum; and Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, 1979, no. 52
- The Discovery of the Lake District, Victoria & Albert Museum, 1984, no. 94
- Old Master Drawings from the Ashmolean Museum, Ashmolean Museum, 1992, no. 93
- Francis Towne, Tate Gallery; Leeds City Art Gallery, 24 June 1997 - 4 January 1998, no. 57
- Bibliography
- David Blaney Brown, Ashmolean Museum Catalogue of Drawings Vol 4: Earlier English Drawings, Clarendon: Oxford, 1982, pp. 628-629
- Adrian Bury, Francis Towne - Lone Star of Water-Colour Painting, Charles Skilton: London, 1962, pp. 95, 130
- Martin Hardie, Water-Colour Painting in Britain, ed. Dudley Snelgrove, London: B. T. Batsford, 1966, p. 123
- Luke Herrmann, British Landscape Painting of the 18th Century, Faber: London, 1973, pp. 77-78
- Paul Oppé, 'Francis Towne, Landscape Painter', The Walpole Society: London, 1920, p. 121
Other entries in Lake District, 1786
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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
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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
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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 one of four watercolours of Stock Ghyll Force in Ambleside.