- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
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- Pantenbruck
- Date
- 1781/09/03
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and grey ink, grey wash, scratching out
- Dimensions
-
- image width 465mm,
- image length 285mm
- Support
- paper has stitch marks evident along its left edge, and a watermark “C&I HONIG”
- Inscription
-
- sheet, verso
- “Panten-Bruck Morning light from the right Hand / No.29 Septr 3d 1781 / Francis Towne”
- Object Type
- Monochrome wash
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- Collection
- Catalogue Number
- FT371
- Description Sources
- Examination; 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) inherited the drawing in May 1915 (BP76). In 1930 Judith Merivale sold it to Norman Darnton Lupton (1875–1953) of Hyde Crook, Dorchester, Dorset, with five other drawings (FT320, FT375, FT436, FT544, FT597) for £27 10s. Agnes Lupton (1874–1950) and Norman Lupton bequeathed the drawing to the present owner, Leeds City Art Gallery (13.209/53).
- Associated People & Organisations
- Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, 1953, 13.209/53
- Agnes Lupton (1874 - 1950), Dorchester, 1930, GBP 27 10s
- Norman Darnton Lupton (1875 - 1953), Dorchester, 1930, GBP 27 10s
- Judith Ann Merivale (1860 - 1945), Oxford, May 1915, BP76
- Maria Sophia Merivale (1853 - 1928), Oxford, May 1915, BP76
- 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
- Watercolours and Drawings from the City Art Gallery, Leeds, Thomas Agnew & Sons, 1960, no. 42
- The Lupton Collection, Leeds City Art Gallery, 1972, no. 79
- The Great Age of British Watercolours 1750-1880, Royal Academy of Arts, 1993, no. 274
- Bibliography
- Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds Art Calendar, No. 26: Leeds, 1954, p. 10
- Adrian Bury, Francis Towne - Lone Star of Water-Colour Painting, Charles Skilton: London, 1962, p. 131
Other entries in C&I Honig Series: Northern Italy and Switzerland, August and September 1781
“Lago Torfi”, near Lugano
National Gallery National Gallery of Victoria
Waterfall between Chiavenna and Mount Splugen
In the Valley of the Grisons looking on Tusis
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Comment
From the direction of the light this appears to be a northwards view.