- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- Pantenbruck
- Date
- 1781/09/03
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and grey ink, grey wash
- Dimensions
-
- image width 279mm,
- image length 457mm
- Inscription
-
- sheet, recto
- “glaciere”
- at the summit of mountain
- Inscription
-
- sheet, verso
- “Panten-Bruck, a bridge over the cataract that forms the summit which is called / the Sand-bach, this bridge is a single arch of Stone of about 70 feet in Length thrown over / a Precipice of about 300 feet in depth. Distance Glaciers of Glaris / No.28 / September 3rd 1781 morning light from the right Hand / Francis Towne”
- Object Type
- Monochrome wash
-
- Collection
-
- (no.2209)
- Catalogue Number
- FT370
- Description Sources
- 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 (BP75). On 7 February 1934 Judith Merivale sold it to Agnew’s (no.11570) for £8, where it was bought (on 6 February according to Agnew’s) for £11 by A. E. Anderson, from whom it was acquired in June 1934 by the present owner, Williamson Art Gallery and Museum (no.2209).
- Associated People & Organisations
- Williamson Art Gallery and Museum, Birkenhead Wirral, June 1934, no.2209
- A. E. Anderson (active 1934), 6 February 1934, GBP 11
- Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 7 February 1934, GBP 8, no.11570
- Judith Ann Merivale (1860 - 1945), Oxford, May 1915
- Maria Sophia Merivale (1853 - 1928), Oxford, May 1915
- John Herman Merivale (1779 - 1844), 1825
- James White (1744 - 1825), Exeter, 1816
- Exhibition History
- Annual Exhibition of Water-Colours & Drawings, Thomas Agnew & Sons, 1934, no. 83
- The Great Period of British Watercolour from Turner to Burne-Jones, Museo d'Arte della citta; Gainsborough's House, 2004, no. 45
- Bibliography
- Adrian Bury, Francis Towne - Lone Star of Water-Colour Painting, Charles Skilton: London, 1962, p. 138
- Timothy Wilcox, Francis Towne, Tate Publishing: London, 1997, pp. 164-165
- William Coxe, Travels in Switzerland in a Series of Letters to William Melmouth Esq, T. Cadell: London, 1789, vol 1, pp. 50-52
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