- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- Tree Study
- Date
- No date
- Medium
- Pen and ink, blue wash
- Inscription
-
- sheet, recto
- “FT”
- Object Type
- Monochrome wash
-
- Catalogue Number
- FT639a
- Description Sources
- Paul Oppé records
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 granddaughter Emily Harriet Buckingham inherited this drawing in 1915, whereafter it is untraced.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Emily Harriet Buckingham (1853 - 1923), 1915
- John Herman Merivale (1779 - 1844), 1825
- James White (1744 - 1825), Exeter, 1816
- Exhibition History
- unidentified exhibition, Walker's Galleries, 1949, no. 152
- Three Exeter Artists of the Eighteenth Century: Francis Hayman RA, Francis Towne, John White Abbott, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, 1951, no. 34
- Bibliography
- Richard Seddon, 'Some Notable Watercolours of the Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield', Old Watercolour Society's Club, ed. Adrian Bury (ed.): London, 1963, p. 25
Other entries in Unidentified Subjects, ca. 1783–1800
Francis Towne
Landscape with Horseman and Goats
Landscape with Horseman and Goats
National Gallery National Gallery of Victoria
Footnotes
- 1 Paul Oppé records.
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Comment
Paul Oppé noted in the collection of Emily Buckingham a “pretty feeble tree, in ind ink & blue FT”.1