- Description
-
- 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 grey ink, watercolour
- Dimensions
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- image width 376mm,
- image length 265mm
- Object Type
- Watercolour
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- Collection
-
- (T08262)
- Catalogue Number
- FT517
- Description Sources
- Examination; 1997 Tate catalogue (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 (BP142) and gave it in the same year to Paul Oppé (1878–1957; no.897, which gives the year as 1919), whose descendants sold it in 1996 with the rest of Oppé’s collection to the current owner, the Tate Gallery (T08262). The name “Rose Merivale” is written on the back of the drawing. As it was given to Oppé as early as 1915, it is more likely that this refers to John Herman Merivale’s daughter Rose Mary Merivale (1823–1902) than his great-granddaughter Rosamund MacBrien (née Merivale), then only two or three years old.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Tate, London, 1996, T08262
- Adolph Paul Oppé (1878 - 1957), London, 1915, no.897
- Judith Ann Merivale (1860 - 1945), Oxford, May 1915, BP142
- Maria Sophia Merivale (1853 - 1928), Oxford, May 1915, BP142
- [?] Rose Mary Merivale (1823 - 1902)
The name “Rose Merivale” is written on the back of the drawing - John Herman Merivale (1779 - 1844), 1825
- James White (1744 - 1825), Exeter, 1816
- Exhibition History
- unidentified exhibition, Institute of Art Research, 1929, no. 14
- 76th Annual Exhibition of Water-Colour Drawings, Thomas Agnew & Sons, 1949, no. 18
- Early English Drawings and Watercolours from the Collection of Paul Oppe Esq., Graves Art Gallery, 1952, no. 72
- Exhibition of Works from The Paul Oppe Collection, Royal Academy, 1958, no. 86
- Francis Towne, Tate Gallery; Leeds City Art Gallery, 24 June 1997 - 4 January 1998, no. 58
- Bibliography
- Paul Oppé, 'Francis Towne, Landscape Painter', The Walpole Society: London, 1920, pp. 121-122
- Adrian Bury, Francis Towne - Lone Star of Water-Colour Painting, Charles Skilton: London, 1962, pp. 95-96, 145
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, behind the Salutation Inn at Ambleside.