- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
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- Christ Church, Oxford
- Date
- 1813/08/25
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and grey ink, watercolour
- Dimensions
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- image height 176mm,
- image width 262mm
- Inscription
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- sheet, verso
- “No.2 / Christ Church Oxford August 25. 1813 / Francis Towne Delt 2 o Clock”
- Part of
-
- 1813 Sketchbook
- Object Type
- Watercolour
-
- Collection
-
- (DBB.1826)
- Catalogue Number
- FT753
- Description Sources
- Examination; Museum records (image)
Provenance
Bequeathed by the artist in 1816 to James White of Exeter (1744–1825), on whose death it passed to Towne’s residuary legatee John Herman Merivale (1745–1844) 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 as part of a sketchbook containing 752 to 764, which they sold in 1927 to Walker’s Galleries for £60. In 1928 Augustus Walker (1866/67–1965) gave the drawing to the present owner, the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (DBB.1826).
- Associated People & Organisations
- Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1928, DBB.1826
- Augustus Walker (1866/67 - 1965), 1928
- Walker's Galleries, London, 1927, GBP 60
Within a sketchbook containing FT752 to FT764. - Judith Ann Merivale (1860 - 1945), Oxford, May 1915
- Maria Sophia Merivale (1853 - 1928), Oxford, May 1915
- John Herman Merivale (1779 - 1844), 1825
- James White (1744 - 1825), Exeter, 1816
- Exhibition History
- 24th Annual Exhibition of Early English Watercolours, Walker's Galleries, 1928, no. 76
- Bibliography
- David Blaney Brown, Ashmolean Museum Catalogue of Drawings Vol 4: Earlier English Drawings, Clarendon: Oxford, 1982, p. 630
- Adrian Bury, Francis Towne - Lone Star of Water-Colour Painting, Charles Skilton: London, 1962, p. 130
Other entries in 1813 Sketchbook
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Comment
This is a view of the spire of Christ Church Cathedral from Christ Church Meadow. Towne’s inscription that he made this drawing at 2:00 pm overlaps with his view of Worcester College (FT752), which he inscribed “from 1 o Clock till 3”. The two sites are about ten minutes’ walk from one another.