- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- The Barle River
- Date
- No date
- Medium
- Pen and ink, blue, grey, and violet washes
- Inscription
-
- recto
- “North Moor, Brewer Castle, dark Woods”
- in ink
- Inscription
-
- sheet, verso
- “1st Finished for Sir Thomas Acland, to have 8 guineas by agreement”
- in pencil
- Object Type
- Monochrome wash
-
- Versions
- The Barle River
- Catalogue Number
- FT441
- Description Sources
- Paul Oppé records
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 (1852–1928) and Judith Ann Merivale (1860–1945), both of Oxford, inherited the drawing in May 1915 (BP198). In December 1935 Judith Merivale sold it to Sir Francis Dyke Acland, Bt (1874–1939), for £7 10s. with FT442 and FT443. It is thereafter untraced.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Untraced
- Sir Francis Dyke Acland (1874 - 1939), December 1935, GBP 7.10s
Acquired with FT442 and FT443 - Judith Ann Merivale (1860 - 1945), Oxford, May 1915, BP198
- Maria Sophia Merivale (1853 - 1928), Oxford, May 1915, BP198
- John Herman Merivale (1779 - 1844), 1825
- James White (1744 - 1825), Exeter, 1816
Other entries in Acland Estates, 1785–86
Francis Towne
Holnicote, Somerset, the Seat of Sir Thomas Acland
Holnicote, Somerset, the Seat of Sir Thomas Acland
Francis Towne
A View taken at Killerton, the Seat of Sir Thomas Acland, Bt
A View taken at Killerton, the Seat of Sir Thomas Acland, Bt
Footnotes
- 1 Paul Oppé records.
Revisions & Feedback
The website will be updated from time to time and, when changes are made, a PDF of the previous version of each page will be archived here for consultation and citation.
Please help us to improve this catalogue
If you have information, a correction or any other suggestions to improve this catalogue, please contact us.
Comment
The River Barle flowed past Pixton near Dulverton, an estate of Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, Bt (1752–1794), on the south-eastern edge of Exmoor. Pixton was one of three estates that came to the Acland family through the marriage of Sir Thomas’s father to Elizabeth Dyke (the other two being Tetton and Holnicote); Dulverton and Holnicote featured some of the region’s best stag-hunting country.
The version of this drawing commissioned by Sir Thomas Dyke Acland is FT552, dated 1790.
Paul Oppé mentioned the three drawings commissioned by Sir Thomas Acland in passing in a note describing three other drawings (see FT436). Oppé viewed this drawing, with FT442 and FT443, a second time (probably after its sale in 1935), then calling it The River Bale and noting inscriptions. Oppé’s full note reads: