- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- Glastonbury Abbey
- Date
- 1777/07/30
- Medium
- Pen and grey ink, watercolour
- Dimensions
-
- image width 292mm,
- image length 483mm
- Mount
- mounted by the artist
- Inscription
-
- sheet, recto, lower left
- “F.Towne / 1777 / No.54”
- Inscription
-
- sheet, verso
- “Glastonbury Abbey – Drawn on the Spot”, numbered “54”, and dated “July 30th 1777”
- signed and inscribed
- Object Type
- Watercolour
-
- Catalogue Number
- FT118
- Description Sources
- 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. Merivale’s grandson George Montagu Merivale (b.1855) of Sydney, Australia, inherited the drawing and it descended through the family of his daughter Angel Merivale (b.1884) until it was offered for sale by Mrs R. Madoc at Sotheby’s on 15 July 1976, lot 40a, when it did not sell, as it was offered again at Christie’s on 20 March 1979, lot 134, where it was unsold, as it was sold at Lawrence of Crewkerne on 22 May 1980, lot 82. It was sold at Sotheby’s on 11 July 1990, lot 61, for £9,500, whereafter it is untraced. It was acquired at some unknown point by Leger Galleries (no.909508).
- Associated People & Organisations
- [?] Leger Galleries, no.909508
- Private Collection, 11 July 1990, GBP 9500
- Sotheby's, London, London, 11 July 1990, lot 61
- Private Collection, 20 May 1980
- Lawrence of Crewkerne, Crewkerne, 22 May 1980, lot 82
- Christie's, London, London, 20 March 1979, lot 134
Unsold - Sotheby's, London, London, 15 July 1976, lot 40a
Apparently unsold - R. Madoc
- Angel Merivale (1884 - ?)
- George Montagu Merivale (1855 - ?), Sydney
- John Herman Merivale (1779 - 1844), 1825
- James White (1744 - 1825), Exeter, 1816
Other entries in Tour of Wales, 1777
View of a Mountain, Perhaps near Aberddwlas
A View near Dolgelly with Part of Cader Idris
A View of the Salmon Leap from Pont Aberglaslyn
The West Front of Tintern Abbey
Chepstow Chepstow Museum and Art Gallery
The Ruins of the Great Room in Ludlow Castle, Shopshire, where Milton’s Comus was Performed
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