- Description
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- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
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- Montreux
- Date
- 1781/09/12
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and brown ink
- Dimensions
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- image width 254mm,
- image length 381mm
- Inscription
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- recto
- various colour indications
- Inscription
-
- sheet, verso
- numbered “4”, dated 12 September 1781, and identified as Montreux
- Object Type
- Outline only
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- Catalogue Number
- FT377
- Description Sources
- Paul Oppé notes; Barton Place catalogue
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 (BP82), whereafter it is untraced.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Untraced
- Judith Ann Merivale (1860 - 1945), Oxford, May 1915, BP82
- Maria Sophia Merivale (1853 - 1928), Oxford, May 1915, BP82
- John Herman Merivale (1779 - 1844), 1825
- James White (1744 - 1825), Exeter, 1816
Other entries in Lake Geneva and Chamonix series, September 1781
Francis Towne
Head of Lake Geneva, looking towards Montreux and the Chateau Chillon
Head of Lake Geneva, looking towards Montreux and the Chateau Chillon
Fitzwilliam Fitzwilliam Museum
Francis Towne
A View taken above Lausanne looking over Lake Geneva
A View taken above Lausanne looking over Lake Geneva
Fitzwilliam Fitzwilliam Museum
Footnotes
- 1 Paul Oppé records: notes, ca. 1915.
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Comment
Montreux is a town on the edge of Lake Geneva, very near to Vevey. Oppé’s note reads: “Same paper [as FT375] no wash. Mill. Light, shadow, thatch slab. Rock white wet[?] stone etc written in same ink. Once over pencil. Brown ink.”1
John White Abbott made copies of two of Towne’s drawings of Montreux (FT833b and FT833c); however, as no images of them are known, it is unclear if the 12 September 1781 sketch here was a source for either.