- Description
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- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
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- Abbey Ruins
- Date
- No date
- Dimensions
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- image height 191mm,
- image width 298mm
- Object Type
- Watercolour
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- Catalogue Number
- FTX18
- Description Sources
- 1951 Exeter catalogue; Agnew's records
Provenance
Signed. Exhibit 63 in the 1951 Exeter exhibition, lent by Canon Francis Henry Dumville Smythe (1872/1873–1966). Watercolour, 7.5 x 11.75 in. (191 x 298 mm) (exhibition catalogue). This is perhaps the “Cathedral” by “Towne” that Smythe sold at Christie’s on 13 March 1961, lot 162 (with two other drawings: a waterfall and a thatcher), to Agnew’s, who later sold it at Phillips on 8 June 1962 (Agnew’s records).
- Associated People & Organisations
- Untraced
- [?] Phillips, London, 8 June 1962
- [?] Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 13 March 1961
- [?] Christie's, London, London, 13 March 1961, lot 162
- Canon Francis Henry Dumville Smythe (1872/73 - 1966)
Other entries in Unidentifiable Works
Francis Towne
A View on the Lake of Zurich with a Peasant and Cattle
A View on the Lake of Zurich with a Peasant and Cattle
Figures beside a River and Wooded Landscape, attributed to Francis Towne
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