- Description
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- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
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- The Cascade in the Groves at Ambleside
- Date
- ca. 1786/08
- Medium
- Pencil (?), pen and ink, watercolour
- Dimensions
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- image width 381mm,
- image length 254mm
- Object Type
- Watercolour
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- Catalogue Number
- FT516
- Description Sources
- Paul Oppé records; Christie’s 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), both of Oxford, inherited the drawing in May 1915 (BP139 or 141) and sold it to Miss L. Arthur of Butter Hill, Dorking, possibly in 1925 with two other drawings (314, 316). It was in the custody of Christie’s, where it was photographed, at some point subsequently and probably in 1973 when the two other Miss Arthur drawings were also consigned.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Untraced
- Miss L. Arthur, Dorking, 1925
- Judith Ann Merivale (1860 - 1945), Oxford, May 1915, BP139 or 141
- Maria Sophia Merivale (1853 - 1928), Oxford, May 1915, BP139 or 141
- John Herman Merivale (1779 - 1844), 1825
- James White (1744 - 1825), Exeter, 1816
- Bibliography
- Paul Oppé, 'Francis Towne, Landscape Painter', The Walpole Society: London, 1920, pp. 121-122
Other entries in Lake District, 1786
A View at Ambleside, near Sir Michael Fleming’s on the Road to Keswick
A View taken at Ambleside at the Head of Lake Windermere
Looking from Ambleside across Lake Windermere
A View near the Turnpike on the Way from Low Wood to Ambleside
Looking to the Mountains over the Head of Buttermere
A View at Low Wood, looking across the Head of Lake Windermere
Raven Crag and Part of Thirlmere
Fitzwilliam Fitzwilliam Museum
St John’s in the Vale, looking towards Grasmere
St John’s in the Vale looking towards Keswick
A View in St John’s in the Vale looking towards Keswick
On the Side of Lake Windermere, near the Turnpike
A View of Derwent Water looking towards Lodore Falls
A View from the Cascade in the Groves at Ambleside
At Ambleside coming from the Cascade in the Groves
A View of Rydal Water looking towards Rydal Hall
Elter Force, near Ambleside
National Gallery National Gallery of Victoria
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Comment
This is one of four studies of Stock Ghyll Force in Ambleside, and one of three that are variants of the same view drawn from almost identical viewpoints (the others being FT515 and FT517).