- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- Landscape, Perhaps at Aberddwlas
- Aberddwla in North Wales
- Date
- 1777/06/23
- Medium
- Pencil (?), pen and ink, watercolour
- Dimensions
-
- image width 216mm,
- image length 279mm
- Inscription
-
- sheet, recto
- “No10 F.Towne delt June 23 1777”
- Object Type
- Watercolour
-
- Catalogue Number
- FT075
- Description Sources
- Paul Oppé records
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 granddaughters Maria Sophia Merivale (1853–1928) and Judith Ann Merivale (1860–1945), both of Oxford, inherited the drawing in May 1915 (BP104b), whereafter it is untraced (although the absence from the Barton Place catalogue of a note indicating its sale or gift by Judith Merivale may mean that it remained in her possession until death).
- Associated People & Organisations
- Untraced
- Judith Ann Merivale (1860 - 1945), Oxford, May 1915, BP104b
- Maria Sophia Merivale (1853 - 1928), Oxford, May 1915, BP104b
- John Herman Merivale (1779 - 1844), 1825
- James White (1744 - 1825), Exeter, 1816
Other entries in Tour of Wales, 1777
Francis Towne
View of a Mountain, Perhaps near Aberddwlas
View of a Mountain, Perhaps near Aberddwlas
Francis Towne
A View near Dolgelly with Part of Cader Idris
A View near Dolgelly with Part of Cader Idris
Francis Towne
A View of the Salmon Leap from Pont Aberglaslyn
A View of the Salmon Leap from Pont Aberglaslyn
Francis Towne
The West Front of Tintern Abbey
The West Front of Tintern Abbey
Chepstow Chepstow Museum and Art Gallery
Francis Towne
The Ruins of the Great Room in Ludlow Castle, Shopshire, where Milton’s Comus was Performed
The Ruins of the Great Room in Ludlow Castle, Shopshire, where Milton’s Comus was Performed
Footnotes
- 1 Paul Oppé records: notes, ca. 1915.
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Comment
Paul Oppé’s note of this drawing reads: “104b – Framed. No10 F.Towne delt June 23 1777 8½ x 11 [216 x 279 mm]. Very lake like pretty. faint outline v good comps of green, blues brown. Scarcely any grey. Blue bright. Outline in cloud but not followed. yellow in sky[?].”1 See also the Comment at FT073.