- Description
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- Title(s)
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- Trees at Peamore
- Date
- 1802
- Medium
- Pen and black ink, watercolour
- Dimensions
-
- image height 395mm,
- image width 505mm
- Inscription
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- sheet, recto
- “JWA” monogram and dated “1802”
- Inscription
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- label, verso
- “Peamore Devon, from a drawing by – Mr Towne – JWA – 1803 – The right hand tree only – copied. Given to Francis Abbott – March 1. 1832.”
- attached to the backboard
- Object Type
- Watercolour
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- Versions
- Tree study at Peamore
- Catalogue Number
- FT836
- Description Sources
- Sotheby’s records; Witt Library (image)
Provenance
The drawing was sold at Sotheby’s on 22 November 1979, lot 181, whereafter it is untraced. The provenance was then given as John Drew; Elizabeth Drew, 1836; and by descent to the seller. However, according to the label’s inscription, the drawing was given in 1832 to Francis White Abbott, the artist’s son and Towne’s godson.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Untraced
- Sotheby's, London, London, 22 November 1979
lot 181 - Francis White Abbott (1801), 1832
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Comment
These trees were among John White Abbott’s favourite subjects, and he returned to Peamore repeatedly to sketch them. This version is based largely on FT624. Two other large finished watercolours of these trees are known, both dated 1799 (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and National Gallery, Washington DC).
Figure 1.
John White Abbott, Trees at Peamore Park, Exeter, watercolour, pen and ink, 1799
Digital image courtesy of Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, PD.42-1980