- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
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- At Radnor
- Date
- 1810
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and grey ink, watercolour
- Dimensions
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- image height 170mm,
- image width 250mm
- Inscription
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- sheet, verso
- “At Radnor”
- Part of
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- 1810 Sketchbook
- Object Type
- Watercolour
-
- Catalogue Number
- FT699a
- Description Sources
- Examination; Phillips records (image); John Spink catalogue
Provenance
Bequeathed by Francis Towne 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 within a sketchbook containing FT689 to FT714. This drawing was not among the seventeen from the book sold to the Fine Art Society by Mr and Mrs Sutton of New Zealand in 1963, but they or their successors sold the drawing at Phillips on 9 November 1999, lot 18, perhaps to the “Private Collection” from which it was loaned for exhibition in November 2005.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Private Collection, 9 November 1999
- Phillips, London, 9 November 1999, lot 18
- Mr & Mrs Sutton, New Zealand, 1963
- Judith Ann Merivale (1860 - 1945), Oxford, May 1915
The drawing was inherited within a sketchbook containing FT689 to FT714. - Maria Sophia Merivale (1853 - 1928), Oxford, May 1915
The drawing was inherited within a sketchbook containing FT689 to FT714. - John Herman Merivale (1779 - 1844), 1825
- James White (1744 - 1825), Exeter, 1816
- Exhibition History
- Francis Towne and his Friends, John Spink at Colnaghi, 2005, no. 15
Other entries in 1810 Sketchbook
The Breidden Hills going from Shrewsbury to Welshpool
The Forest of Radnor and the Black Mountains
Mount Batten and Mount Edgcumbe from Teat’s Hill, near Plymouth
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Comment
John Spink gave the inscription, which was not noted by Phillips in 1999. The hills here are visible also in the background of FT700.