- Description
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- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- Landscape
- Date
- 1810
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and grey ink, watercolour
- Dimensions
-
- image width 159mm,
- image width 248mm
- Part of
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- 1810 Sketchbook
- Object Type
- Watercolour
-
- Catalogue Number
- FT703
- Description Sources
- Examination; Sotheby's records (image)
Provenance
Bequeathed by Francis Towne 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 granddaughters Maria Sophia Merivale (1853–1928) and Judith Ann Merivale (1860–1945), both of Oxford, inherited the drawing in May 1915 within a sketchbook containing FT689 to FT714. The drawing is thereafter untraced until its sale at Sotheby’s on 15 March 1990, lot 91, for £4,000. It was offered for sale by John Spink in November 2005 for £36,000.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Private Collection
- John Spink, London, November 2005
- Private Collection, 15 March 1990, GBP 4000
- Sotheby's, London, London, 15 March 1990, GBP 4000, lot 91
- Judith Ann Merivale (1860 - 1945), Oxford, May 1915
The drawing was inherited within a sketchbook containing FT689 to FT714. - Maria Sophia Merivale (1853 - 1928), Oxford, May 1915
The drawing was inherited within a sketchbook containing FT689 to FT714. - John Herman Merivale (1779 - 1844), 1825
- James White (1744 - 1825), Exeter, 1816
- Exhibition History
- Francis Towne and his Friends, John Spink at Colnaghi, 2005, no. 16
Other entries in 1810 Sketchbook
Francis Towne
The Breidden Hills going from Shrewsbury to Welshpool
The Breidden Hills going from Shrewsbury to Welshpool
Francis Towne
The Forest of Radnor and the Black Mountains
The Forest of Radnor and the Black Mountains
Francis Towne
Mount Batten and Mount Edgcumbe from Teat’s Hill, near Plymouth
Mount Batten and Mount Edgcumbe from Teat’s Hill, near Plymouth
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Comment
This work seems to have no inscription, although Sotheby’s sold it in 1990 as “Travellers on a Road near Exeter”. It is here associated with the 1810 sketchbook on grounds of style and dimension.