- Description
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- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
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- Fall of the Cayne, North Wales
- Date
- ca. 1777 - 1798
- Medium
- [?] Oil painting
- Object Type
- Oil painting
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- Catalogue Number
- FT598
- Description Sources
- Exhibition catalogue
- Associated People & Organisations
- Untraced
- Exhibition History
- The Exhibition of the Royal Academy, Royal Academy of Arts, 1798, no. 555 as 'Fall of the Cayne, North Wales'
- Bibliography
- Timothy Wilcox, Francis Towne, Tate Publishing: London, 1997, p. 43
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A large Landscape, with a Scene in Shakespeare’s Cymberline
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The Wrekin in Shropshire going off of a storm
The Wrekin in Shropshire going off of a storm
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A View on the River Exe, taken near the Seat of Sir Francis Drake, Devonshire
A View on the River Exe, taken near the Seat of Sir Francis Drake, Devonshire
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Chateau de Blonay near Vevey, at the Head of Lake Geneva
Chateau de Blonay near Vevey, at the Head of Lake Geneva
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The Ruins of La Bathia, near Martigny, Switzerland
The Ruins of La Bathia, near Martigny, Switzerland
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A View in Neptune’s Grotto of the Sybil’s Temple at Tivoli
A View in Neptune’s Grotto of the Sybil’s Temple at Tivoli
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View of the Passage over Mount Splugen in the Alps
View of the Passage over Mount Splugen in the Alps
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View near the Chateau de Chillon at the Head of Lake Geneva
View near the Chateau de Chillon at the Head of Lake Geneva
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Comment
Towne exhibited a view of the falls of the Cayne at the Royal Academy in 1798 and at the British Institution in 1815 (FT598, FT652). As Towne’s exhibits were based on his on-the-spot drawings, he must have made a sketch of the Cayne falls—no doubt when he visited the nearby falls of the Mawddwy in 1777 (see FT079). No preparatory study is known, but a 1795 waterfall (FT584) has been tentatively identified by its owner as the falls of the Cayne. Towne gave his address in the catalogue as “Exeter”.