- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- Dunsford Bridge
- Date
- 1787
- Medium
- Unknown
- Dimensions
-
- image width 203mm,
- image length 406mm
- Inscription
-
- sheet, recto, lower right
- “F.Towne / delt 1787”
- Inscription
-
- artist's mount, verso
- “No2 / A View of Dunsford Bridge / Devonshire / Francis Towne 1787”
- Object Type
- Unknown
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- Catalogue Number
- FT546
- Description Sources
- Sotheby’s records; Lowell Libson records (image)
Provenance
Untraced until its sale by Dr F. A. Turk (1911–1996) at Sotheby’s on 21 February 1945 to Hemphill for £24. It was also sold at Christie’s on 22 February 1966, lot 181, for £220. It was offered for sale at Phillips Cornwall in May 1988.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Untraced
- Phillips, Cornwall, May 1988
- Private Collection, 22 February 1966, GBP 220
- Christie's, London, London, 22 February 1966, lot 181
- Hemphill, 21 February 1945, GBP 24
- Sotheby's, London, London, 21 February 1945
- Dr F. A. Turk (1911 - 1996)
Other entries in Canonteign, Chudleigh, and Dunsford, 1783–1803
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Comment
The inscriptions on this drawing, known only through poor quality black and white images, look authentic, and the drawing is included in this catalogue on that basis. However, the washes on the trees look crudely applied.