- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- Edinburgh from Leith
- Date
- 1811/08/15
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and grey ink, watercolour
- Dimensions
-
- image height 172mm,
- image width 512mm
- Support
- two sheets
- Inscription
-
- sheet, verso
- “5 / Edinburgh / From Leith August 15th. 1811 / Francis Towne”
- Part of
-
- 1811 Sketchbook
- Object Type
- Watercolour
-
- Catalogue Number
- FT723
- Description Sources
- Examination; Christie's 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 (1779–1844) and his successors. It descended to Merivale’s granddaughter Janet Louisa Gibbs (née Merivale, d.1909) within a sketchbook containing FT715 to FT732, and thereafter within her family, until it was offered for sale at Christie’s on 7 April 1992, lot 65, when it did not sell. It was sold at Christie’s on 12 July 1994, lot 48.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Untraced
- Christie's, London, London, 12 July 1994, lot 48
- Christie's, London, London, 7 April 1992, lot 65
Unsold. - Janet Louisa Gibbs (née Merivale) (? - 1909)
Within a sketchbook containing FT715 to FT732. - John Herman Merivale (1779 - 1844), 1825
- James White (1744 - 1825), Exeter, 1816
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Francis Towne
The Firth of Forth with the Island of Inchkeith
The Firth of Forth with the Island of Inchkeith
Francis Towne
Windsor Castle from the Grounds of Eton College
Windsor Castle from the Grounds of Eton College
Francis Towne
Windsor Castle from the Grounds of Eton College
Windsor Castle from the Grounds of Eton College
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Comment
Leith was (and is) a suburban area of Edinburgh just north of the city, and the site of a natural harbour from which Edinburgh gained access to the Firth of Forth.