- Description
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- Creator
- Merivale after Francis Towne
- Title(s)
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- Landscape
- Trees with classical buildings
- Date
- 1793
- Medium
- Pen and brown, grey and blue inks, brown, grey and blue washes
- Dimensions
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- image height 192mm,
- image width 140mm
- Support
- paper watermarked “J WHATMAN”
- Mount
- on an eighteenth-century mount
- Object Type
- Monochrome wash
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- Versions
- Landscape Composition
- Catalogue Number
- FT837
- Description Sources
- Museum records (image)
Provenance
Untraced until November 1932 when on sale at Squire Gallery, who on 22 January 1935 sold it to Howard Spensley (1869/1870–1938) for £4 10s. Spensley bequeathed it to the current owner, the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia (Acc. no.620-4).
- Associated People & Organisations
- National Gallery National Gallery of Victoria, Victoria, 1938, Acc. no.620-4
- Howard Spensley (1869/70 - 1938), 22 January 1935, GBP 4.10s
- Squire Gallery, London, 1932
- Exhibition History
- Early English Water-Colours and Drawings, Squire Gallery, 1932
Other entries in Merivale Family
Louisa Heath Drury (née Merivale)
Landscape, probably Oakhampton Castle
Landscape, probably Oakhampton Castle
Frances Mallett (née Merivale), John Herman Merivale
Mount Radford from near the Alphington Road
Mount Radford from near the Alphington Road
John Herman Merivale
Sketchbook of West Country and Midlands Views
Sketchbook of West Country and Midlands Views
Footnotes
- 1 The Times, 1 November 1932.
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Comment
This is one of two copies of FT798, which is dated 1793. No catalogue of the Squire Gallery exhibition is known, but The Times review of it noted the inclusion of “A Classical Landscape” by Francis Towne,1 which is presumably the work Spensley bought. As Squire Gallery bought many Towne drawings from Judith Merivale, it is very likely that this also came from her. It seems, though, that it was not given a BP number and thus cannot be identified with any of the compositions at the more sparsely documented end of the Barton Place list.