- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- The Wrekin
- The Wrekin from the road from Wenlock to Shrewsbury
- The Wrekin in ditto [Shropshire] going off of a storm
- Date
- 1777
- Medium
- Pencil (?), watercolour, on Whatman paper
- Dimensions
-
- image width 216mm,
- image length 274mm
- Support
- on Whatman paper
- Inscription
-
- sheet, recto, lower right
- “F.Towne. delt / No.2 1777”
- Inscription
-
- sheet, verso
- “The Wrekin from the road from Wenlock to Shrewsbury”
- Object Type
- Watercolour
-
- Catalogue Number
- FT067
- Description Sources
- Phillips records (image)
Provenance
Untraced until exhibited at Walker’s Galleries in 1949; even so, it was owned by Spink & Son by 10 October 1949, when it was sold to Agnew’s (no.6042) for £55; it does not feature in Spink’s records, which are patchy for the 1940s. On 7 November 1949 Agnew’s sold it for £75 to Mrs Scott Mason. It was sold at Phillips on 23 March 1970, lot 54, to Leger Galleries, who sold it in November 1970, whereafter it is untraced.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Untraced, November 1970
- Leger Galleries, 23 March 1970
- Phillips, 23 March 1970, lot 54
- Mrs E. M. Scott-Mason, 7 November 1949, GBP 75
- Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 7 November 1949, GBP 55, no. 6042
- Spink & Son, London, London, 10 October 1949
- Walker's Galleries, London, 1949
Other entries in Tour of Wales, 1777
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View of a Mountain, Perhaps near Aberddwlas
View of a Mountain, Perhaps near Aberddwlas
Francis Towne
A View near Dolgelly with Part of Cader Idris
A View near Dolgelly with Part of Cader Idris
Francis Towne
A View of the Salmon Leap from Pont Aberglaslyn
A View of the Salmon Leap from Pont Aberglaslyn
Francis Towne
The West Front of Tintern Abbey
The West Front of Tintern Abbey
Chepstow Chepstow Museum and Art Gallery
Francis Towne
The Ruins of the Great Room in Ludlow Castle, Shopshire, where Milton’s Comus was Performed
The Ruins of the Great Room in Ludlow Castle, Shopshire, where Milton’s Comus was Performed
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Comment
The Wrekin is a hill seen to the right of the road when travelling towards Shrewsbury. Towne made a version of this drawing dated 1783 (FT397), with which another, unfinished sketch is probably associated (FT398). Two views of the Wrekin were exhibited in 1805 with the same title, and as only one composition is now known, a second must have existed (FT068).