Description
Creator
Patience, Carpenter, Lady Trelawny
Title(s)
  • A View on the Haven Banks of Part of the City of Exeter
Date
1802/08/13
Medium
Pencil, pen and grey ink, watercolour
Support
wove paper, with a vertical crease down the centre
Inscription
  • sheet, verso
  • “C.P.Carpenter / A View on the Hayne banks of / part of the City of Exeter / drawn on the Spot August 13th. 1802”
  • in brown ink in Francis Towne’s hand
Object Type
Watercolour

Collection
Catalogue Number
FT895
Description Sources
Examination (image)

Provenance

Presented to the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, in 1931 (51/1931).

Associated People & Organisations

Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery, Exeter, 1931, 51/1931
Bibliography
Jane C. Baker, Catalogue of Oil Paintings, Watercolours, Drawings and Sculpture, Exeter Museums: Exeter, 1978

Comment

pen and grey ink with grey wash over pencil, with original pen and grey ink line mounts

This is a view of Exeter from the Haven Banks of the Exe. White Abbott made a view from the same spot (Sotheby’s, 8 December 2005, lot 139). 

The limited palette indicates that Towne was teaching his pupils to draw with a grey underdrawing, then add tints—here of green for the foliage and brown for the buildings. 

There is evidence of some old gum or glue on the verso of the drawing, so it may well have once been mounted by Towne, or pasted into an album.

by Richard Stephens

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