- Description
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- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
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- Near Glarus
- Date
- ca. 1781
- Medium
- Pen and ink, grey wash
- Dimensions
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- image width 150mm,
- image length 205mm
- Inscription
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- sheet, verso
- “Near Glarus”, dated 2 September, and numbered “45”
- Object Type
- Monochrome wash
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- Collection
-
- (Inv. 5)
- Catalogue Number
- FT333
- Description Sources
- Agnew's records; Museum records (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. Merivale’s granddaughters Maria Sophia Merivale (1853–1928) and Judith Ann Merivale (1860–1945), both of Oxford, inherited the drawing in May 1915 (BP72). On 11 September 1935 (the Barton Place catalogue states January 1936) Judith Merivale sold it for £3 to Agnew’s (no.1785), who sold it the same day for £5 to Sir Michael Ernest Sadler (1861–1943), who gave it to the current owner, the Cooper Art Gallery, Barnsley (Inv. 5). The museum’s records state that it was bequeathed to them by Sadler in 1932, however. It is not clear how these incompatible facts might be resolved.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Cooper Gallery, Barnsley, Inv. 5
- Sir Michael Ernest Sadler (1861 - 1943), 11 September 1935, GBP 5
- Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 11 September 1935, GBP 3, no. 1785
- Judith Ann Merivale (1860 - 1945), Oxford, May 1915, BP72
- Maria Sophia Merivale (1853 - 1928), Oxford, May 1915, BP72
- John Herman Merivale (1779 - 1844), 1825
- James White (1744 - 1825), Exeter, 1816
Other entries in Small Sketchbook: Northern Italy, Switzerland, Savoy and Germany, August and September 1781
A View of a Bridge Fifteen Miles from Florence on the Road to Bologna
Le Rêve at the Head of Lake Como (Lago di Mezzola)
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Comment
All of the Glarus drawings are on large paper except the one catalogued here.