- Description
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- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
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- A View on the River Exe, taken near the Seat of Sir Francis Drake, Devonshire
- Date
- ca. 1779
- Medium
- [?] Oil painting
- Object Type
- Oil painting
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- Catalogue Number
- FT145
- Description Sources
- Exhibition catalogue
- Associated People & Organisations
- Untraced
- Exhibition History
- The Exhibition of the Royal Academy, Royal Academy of Arts, 1779, no. 330 as 'A view on the river Ex, taken near the seat of Sir Francis Drake, Devonshire'
- Bibliography
- Richard Gough, British Topography: London, 1780, vol. 1, p. 319
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The Wrekin in Shropshire going off of a storm
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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
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Chateau de Blonay near Vevey, at the Head of Lake Geneva
Chateau de Blonay near Vevey, at the Head of Lake Geneva
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The Ruins of La Bathia, near Martigny, Switzerland
The Ruins of La Bathia, near Martigny, Switzerland
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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
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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
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Comment
James White ordered a copy of a Llangollen sketch that Towne had made on their 1777 tour of Wales. On the grounds of its subject, it is suggested as one of Towne’s 1779 Royal Academy exhibits (331, A view in North Wales, near Llangollen, in Denbighshire), which was not marked for sale. For Towne’s other 1779 Royal Academy exhibit see FT145.