- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
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- The Dewerstone
- Date
- 1815/09/01
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and brown ink, watercolour
- Dimensions
-
- image height 140mm,
- image width 456mm
- Support
- two sheets of paper
- Inscription
-
- sheet, verso
- “No 9 / September 1st 1815 / Francis Towne / Dewerstone with divides the two Rivers / which uniting forms the Plym”
- Part of
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- 1815 Sketchbook
- Object Type
- Watercolour
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- Collection
-
- (no. 5075)
- Catalogue Number
- FT773
- Description Sources
- Museum 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 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 17 November 1938 Agnew’s (no.2695) sold this drawing for £18 to Paul Oppé (no. 74) on behalf of the current owner, the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (no. 5075).
- Associated People & Organisations
- National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 17 November 1938, no. 5075
- Adolph Paul Oppé (1878 - 1957), London, 17 November 1938, GBP 18, no. 74
- Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 17 May 1938, GBP 60, no.2695
- 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
- British Drawings from the National Gallery of Canada, National Gallery of Canada, 2005, no. 26
- Bibliography
- National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Annual Report of the Board of Trustees for the fiscal year 1937/38: Ottawa, 1938, p. 19
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 Williams 1804, p.33.
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Comment
Dewerstone Rocks is a rocky outcrop just north of Shaugh Prior where the Rivers Plym and Meavy meet. A description of 1804 called it a
Towne made two other drawing close to this spot; the peak in the centre of this drawing is also in FT775 and FT777.