- Description
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- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- Landscape
- Date
- ca. 1790
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and brown ink, watercolour
- Dimensions
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- image width 157mm,
- image length 196mm
- Support
- paper with indistinct watermark
- Object Type
- Watercolour
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- Catalogue Number
- FT582
- Description Sources
- Examination (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 has descended in the family to the present owner.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Private Collection
- John Herman Merivale (1779 - 1844), 1825
- James White (1744 - 1825), Exeter, 1816
Other entries in Unidentified Subjects, ca. 1783–1800
Francis Towne
Landscape with Horseman and Goats
Landscape with Horseman and Goats
National Gallery National Gallery of Victoria
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Comment
There is a faint pencil figure ploughing a field at the bottom of this drawing, and others by the wall on the left. This tightly drawn composition of an unknown location can probably be dated on grounds of style to the 1790s.