Provenance

This drawing was 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 (BP231b), and before Judith Merivale’s death it was given it to their nephew Charles Herman Merivale (1879–pre-1962). It was later the property of Francis Temple-West, the second husband of Blanche Liddell whose first husband, John William Merivale (1887–1916), was Charles Herman Merivale’s brother. On 27 February 1956 Temple-West sold it to Agnew’s (no.8337) with FT096, FT566, FT631, FT803, and on 15 January 1957 they sold it for £90 to a collector, whereafter it is untraced.