- Description
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- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
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- A View near Exeter
- Date
- 1771
- Medium
- [?] Oil painting
- Object Type
- Oil painting
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- Catalogue Number
- FT014
- Description Sources
- Society of Artists exhibition catalogues
- Associated People & Organisations
- Untraced
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A large Landscape, with a Scene in Shakespeare’s Cymberline
A large Landscape, with a Scene in Shakespeare’s Cymberline

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The Wrekin in Shropshire going off of a storm
The Wrekin in Shropshire going off of a storm

Francis Towne
A View on the River Exe, taken near the Seat of Sir Francis Drake, Devonshire
A View on the River Exe, taken near the Seat of Sir Francis Drake, Devonshire

Francis Towne
Chateau de Blonay near Vevey, at the Head of Lake Geneva
Chateau de Blonay near Vevey, at the Head of Lake Geneva

Francis Towne
The Ruins of La Bathia, near Martigny, Switzerland
The Ruins of La Bathia, near Martigny, Switzerland

Francis Towne
A View in Neptune’s Grotto of the Sybil’s Temple at Tivoli
A View in Neptune’s Grotto of the Sybil’s Temple at Tivoli

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View of the Passage over Mount Splugen in the Alps
View of the Passage over Mount Splugen in the Alps

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View near the Chateau de Chillon at the Head of Lake Geneva
View near the Chateau de Chillon at the Head of Lake Geneva
Footnotes
- 1 Royal Library, Windsor; transcript in the Department of Prints and Drawings, British Museum.
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Comment
In his manuscript “Notebooks on Artists”1 Joseph Farington wrote of Towne that “in 1771 He exhibited at the room of the Incorporated Society in Spring gardens, a view near Exeter which was much admired”. For the third year running Towne’s address in the exhibition catalogue was given as “at Mr.Pars’s, Percy-street, Soho”.