- Description
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- Title(s)
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- Barton Place
- Date
- ca. 1790 - 1810
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and grey ink, grey and blue washes
- Dimensions
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- image height 260mm,
- image width 375mm
- Support
- paper watermarked with a Strasburg Lily design
- Inscription
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- sheet, verso
- “Louisa [. . .] / Merivale” and “Louisa / View of Barton place”
- Object Type
- Monochrome wash
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- Catalogue Number
- FT881
- Description Sources
- Examination; Christie’s records (image)
Provenance
Part of the collection from Barton Place inherited by Maria Sophia Merivale (1853–1928) and Judith Ann Merivale (1860–1945) in May 1915 (BP257). On 12 April 1946 Judith Merivale’s executors sold it to Agnew’s (no.4564), where it was bought on 19 January 1948 for £12 12s. less 12s. 6d. for services by Sir William Worsley, Bt (1890–1973), whose family sold it at Christie’s on 5 June 2003, lot 52 (as by Louisa Ann Merivale, the artist’s daughter), to the current owner.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Private Collection, 5 June 2003
- Christie's, London, London, 5 June 2003, lot 52
- Sir William Worsley (1890 - 1973), 19 January 1948, GBP 12.12s
- Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 12 April 1946, no.4564
- Judith Ann Merivale (1860 - 1945), Oxford, May 1915
- Maria Sophia Merivale (1853 - 1928), Oxford, May 1915
- Bibliography
- Winslow Jones, 'Francis Towne Landscape Painter', Notes and Gleanings: a monthly magazine devoted chiefly to subjects connected with the counties of Devon and Cornwall, ed. William Cotton (ed.), No. 26: Exeter, 1890, p. 18
- Adrian Bury, Francis Towne - Lone Star of Water-Colour Painting, Charles Skilton: London, 1962, pp. 47-48, letter of 26 June 1806
- Anna Merivale, Family Memorials: Exeter, 1884, pp. 124, 369
Other entries in Merivale Family
Louisa Heath Drury (née Merivale)
Landscape, probably Oakhampton Castle
Landscape, probably Oakhampton Castle
Frances Mallett (née Merivale), John Herman Merivale
Mount Radford from near the Alphington Road
Mount Radford from near the Alphington Road
John Herman Merivale
Sketchbook of West Country and Midlands Views
Sketchbook of West Country and Midlands Views
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Comment
This is a sketch of Barton Place, near Exeter, probably drawn in ca. 1790–1810, when Louisa Merivale was a frequent visitor to Barton Place.