- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- Dunsford Bridge on the Teign
- Date
- 1785
- Medium
- Watercolour
- Dimensions
-
- image width 152mm,
- image length 197mm
- Inscription
-
- sheet, verso
- “A View of Dunsford Bridge, on the Teign. Francis Towne, 1785”
- Object Type
- Watercolour
-
- Catalogue Number
- FT448
- Description Sources
- 1951 Exeter catalogue
Provenance
The drawing is untraced apart from its possession by W. G. S. Dyer between 1951 and 1962.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Untraced
- W. G. S. Dyer
- Exhibition History
- Three Exeter Artists of the Eighteenth Century: Francis Hayman RA, Francis Towne, John White Abbott, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, 1951, no. 22
- Bibliography
- Adrian Bury, Francis Towne - Lone Star of Water-Colour Painting, Charles Skilton: London, 1962, p. 151
- Benjamin Donn, 'A Map of the County of Devon', Benjamin Donn: A Commemorative Volume, Devon and Cornwall Record Society and The University of Exeter: Exeter, 1965, plate 7b
Other entries in Canonteign, Chudleigh, and Dunsford, 1783–1803
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