- Description
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- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- Powderham
- Date
- ca. 1773 - 1780
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and ink, wash
- Dimensions
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- image width 229mm,
- image length 330mm
- Inscription
-
- verso
- "Powderham" and numbered "89"
- Object Type
- Monochrome wash
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- Catalogue Number
- FT044
- Description Sources
- Notebooks and papers of Paul Oppé (1878-1957), private collection
Archives of Thomas Agnew & Sons
Provenance
Bequeathed by the artist in 1816 to James White of Exeter (1744–1825), on whose death it reverted 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 drawings in May 1915 (BP171). The drawing was retained until at least October 1939, whereafter it is untraced, although Judith Merivale attempted unsuccessfully to sell it—probably through Squire Gallery—as she marked the Barton Place catalogue “returned Oct 39”.
- Associated People & Organisations
- James White (1744 - 1825)
- John Herman Merivale (1779 - 1844)
- Judith Ann Merivale (1860 - 1945)
- Maria Sophia Merivale (1853 - 1928)
- Squire Gallery
- Untraced
Other entries in West Country Sketches, 1772–80
Francis Towne
A View of Exeter, taken between Exwick and Cowley Bridge
A View of Exeter, taken between Exwick and Cowley Bridge
Francis Towne
A View of Berry Pomeroy Castle within the Gateway
A View of Berry Pomeroy Castle within the Gateway
Francis Towne
A View going up from the Lake in Peamore Park
A View going up from the Lake in Peamore Park
Francis Towne
A View from the Hill above the Lake at Peamore
A View from the Hill above the Lake at Peamore
Francis Towne
A View near Exwell, looking towards Topsham
A View near Exwell, looking towards Topsham
Francis Towne
A View of the Waterfall at Lidford in the County of Devon
A View of the Waterfall at Lidford in the County of Devon
Footnotes
- 1 Paul Oppé records: notes, ca. 1915.
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Comment
Paul Oppé’s note of this work reads:
It may be that Oppé’s “fort” is the Belvedere at Powderham, later at the centre of a series of views commissioned from Towne by Lord Courtenay.