- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- Part of Elter Force
- Date
- 1786
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and brown ink, watercolour with gum and scratching out
- Dimensions
-
- image width 156mm,
- image length 95mm
- Mount
- mounted by the artist
- Inscription
-
- sheet, recto, lower left
- “F.Towne / 1786.”
- Inscription
-
- artist's mount, recto
- “Part of Elter Force, Westmorland / No11”
- in pencil
- Inscription
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- artist's mount, verso
- “Part of Elterforce, Westmoreland”, numbered “11”, and signed
- Object Type
- Watercolour
-
- Catalogue Number
- FT497
- Description Sources
- Christie’s records; Timothy Wilcox (image)
Provenance
Presumably bought from the artist by Arthur Harington Champernowne (1768–1819), as his great-great-granddaughter Katharine Iris Paull of Chichester (see Comment at FT602) sold it at Sotheby’s on 30 July 1952, lot 11, for £48 to Agnew’s (no.6966). On 19 January 1953 Agnew’s sold it for £65 to Charles Richard Nairne Routh (1896–1976), who sold it back to Agnew’s (no.8069) on 26 September 1955. On 13 February 1956 Agnew’s sold it for £85 to Joseph Hawksley Elliot of Sheffield (d. ca. 1978), whose daughter sold it at Christie’s on 14 March 1978, lot 79, for £1,400 to Agnew’s. It was bought there in the same year, and remained in a private collection in 2015.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Private Collection, 1978
- Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 14 March 1978, GBP 1400
- Christie's, London, London, 14 March 1978, lot 79
- Joseph Hawksley Elliot (1884 - 1978), Sheffield, 13 February 1956, GBP 85
- Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 26 September 1955, no.8069
- Charles Richard Nairne Routh (1896 - 1976), 19 January 1953, GBP 65
- Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 30 July 1952, GBP 48, no.6966
- Sotheby's, London, London, 30 July 1952, lot 11
- Katharine Iris Paull, Chichester
- [?] Arthur Harington Champernowne (1768 - 1819), 1786
- Exhibition History
- Exhibition of Original Drawings at the Gallery, No.20 Lower Brook Street, Grosvenor Square, 20 Lower Brook Street, 1805, no. 52 as 'Elter Force, Westmoreland' or 89, as 'Elter Force'
- 80th Annual Exhibition of Water-Colour Drawings, Thomas Agnew & Sons, 1953, no. 92
- 82nd Annual Exhibition of Water-Colour Drawings, Thomas Agnew & Sons, 1956, no. 13
- Bibliography
- Timothy Wilcox, Francis Towne, Tate Publishing: London, 1997, p. 116
Other entries in Lake District, 1786
Francis Towne
A View at Ambleside, near Sir Michael Fleming’s on the Road to Keswick
A View at Ambleside, near Sir Michael Fleming’s on the Road to Keswick
Francis Towne
A View taken at Ambleside at the Head of Lake Windermere
A View taken at Ambleside at the Head of Lake Windermere
Francis Towne
Looking from Ambleside across Lake Windermere
Looking from Ambleside across Lake Windermere
Francis Towne
A View near the Turnpike on the Way from Low Wood to Ambleside
A View near the Turnpike on the Way from Low Wood to Ambleside
Francis Towne
Looking to the Mountains over the Head of Buttermere
Looking to the Mountains over the Head of Buttermere
Francis Towne
A View at Low Wood, looking across the Head of Lake Windermere
A View at Low Wood, looking across the Head of Lake Windermere
Francis Towne
Raven Crag and Part of Thirlmere
Raven Crag and Part of Thirlmere
Fitzwilliam Fitzwilliam Museum
Francis Towne
St John’s in the Vale, looking towards Grasmere
St John’s in the Vale, looking towards Grasmere
Francis Towne
St John’s in the Vale looking towards Keswick
St John’s in the Vale looking towards Keswick
Francis Towne
A View in St John’s in the Vale looking towards Keswick
A View in St John’s in the Vale looking towards Keswick
Francis Towne
On the Side of Lake Windermere, near the Turnpike
On the Side of Lake Windermere, near the Turnpike
Francis Towne
A View of Derwent Water looking towards Lodore Falls
A View of Derwent Water looking towards Lodore Falls
Francis Towne
A View from the Cascade in the Groves at Ambleside
A View from the Cascade in the Groves at Ambleside
Francis Towne
At Ambleside coming from the Cascade in the Groves
At Ambleside coming from the Cascade in the Groves
Francis Towne
A View of Rydal Water looking towards Rydal Hall
A View of Rydal Water looking towards Rydal Hall
Francis Towne
Elter Force, near Ambleside
Elter Force, near Ambleside
National Gallery National Gallery of Victoria
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Comment
This is a view of Skelwith Force near Elterwater. The Lingmoor Fell is clearly visible in the distance, with the Langdale Pikes on the right, adjacent to the trees.
The wash borders on Towne’s mount also appear on the mount of a landscape composition dated 1788 (FT791), which may indicate the time when Towne mounted this drawing.