- Description
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- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
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- Shaugh
- Date
- 1815/09/01
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and grey ink, watercolour
- Dimensions
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- image height 140mm,
- image width 229mm
- Inscription
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- sheet, verso
- “No.1[?0] / Shaugh Sept 1st 1815 / Francis Towne”
- in brown ink showing through to the recto
- Part of
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- 1815 Sketchbook
- Object Type
- Watercolour
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- Catalogue Number
- FT774
- Description Sources
- Examination; John Spink (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 as part of a sketchbook containing FT765 to FT786, which they gave to their cousin Mary Ann Loveband (b.1865, alive in 1951), who sold the book to Agnew’s on 17 May 1938 for £60. On 6 February 1939 Agnew’s (no. 2696) sold this drawing to James Cyril Butterwick of Penn, Buckinghamshire (1890/1891–1966), who sold it back to Agnew’s (no.3697) on 6 January 1944 (also 782) Agnew’s sold it on 28 February 1944 to Sir William Worsley, Bt (1890–1973) for £18 less 19s. commission. Worsley’s family sold it at Christie’s on 20 November 1984, lot 80, for £2,400. It was sold by John Spink in 2005 (advertised for £32,000).
- Associated People & Organisations
- Private Collection
- John Spink, London, 2005
- Private Collection, 20 November 1984, GBP 2400
- Christie's, London, London, 20 November 1984, lot 80
- Sir William Worsley (1890 - 1973), 28 February 1944, GBP 18
- Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 6 January 1944, no.3697
- James Cyril Butterwick, 6 February 1939
- Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 17 May 1938, GBP 60, no. 2696
- Mary Ann Loveband (1865 - alive in 1951)
- Judith Ann Merivale (1860 - 1945), Oxford, May 1915
Inherited as part of a sketchbook containing FT765 to FT786. - Maria Sophia Merivale (1853 - 1928), Oxford, May 1915
Inherited as part of a sketchbook containing FT765 to FT786. - John Herman Merivale (1779 - 1844), 1825
- James White (1744 - 1825), Exeter, 1816
- Exhibition History
- Watercolours by Francis Towne, City Art Gallery, 1950, no. 6
- Bibliography
- Adrian Bury, Francis Towne - Lone Star of Water-Colour Painting, Charles Skilton: London, 1962, p. 141
- Sir William Worsley, Early English Water-Colours at Hovingham Hall: 1963, pp. 1, 9
Other entries in 1815 Sketchbook
On the Road over the Moor to Tavistock
Maurice Dear
Fort Olda with Part of the Abbey, Tavistock
Footnotes
- 1 Donn 1965, pl.10a.
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Comment
Shaugh Prior was a village on the River Plym a few miles north of Plymouth.1 The pinnacle in the top-left corner is part of the Dewerstone Rocks (FT773).
When they catalogued their acquisition in 1938, Agnew’s placed this drawing tenth of the twenty-three works in the sketchbook.