- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- Ugbrooke Park
- Date
- 1773
- Medium
- Grey wash
- Dimensions
-
- image width 283mm,
- image length 451mm
- Mount
- mounted by the artist
- Signature
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- sheet, recto
- signed (?)with initials
- Inscription
-
- artist's mount, verso
- “1773”
- signed and dated
- Object Type
- Monochrome wash
-
- Catalogue Number
- FT032
- Description Sources
- Witt Library (image); 1951 exhibition catalogue
Provenance
Commissioned by Hugh, 4th Baron Clifford of Chudleigh (1726–1783), and descended to the present owner.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Private Collection
- [?] Hugh Clifford, 4th Baron Clifford of Chudleigh (1726 - 1783), Chudleigh, Devon, 1773
- Exhibition History
- Three Exeter Artists of the Eighteenth Century: Francis Hayman RA, Francis Towne, John White Abbott, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, 1951, no. 70 or 71
- Bibliography
- Adrian Bury, Francis Towne - Lone Star of Water-Colour Painting, Charles Skilton: London, 1962, p. 140
- George Oliver, Cliffordiana, T.Howe: Exeter, 1830
- W. A. van S. Papworth; rev. Peter Leach, 'Paine, James (1745-1829)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2004
- Alistair Rowan, 'Ugbrooke Park, Devon', Country Life: London, 1967
- Mary Hones, revised by William W. Snell, A History of Chudleigh, S. Drayton and Sons: Exeter, 1875
- Arthur Clifford, Collectanea Cliffordiana, M.Nouzon: Paris, 1817, p. 79
- Timothy Wilcox, Francis Towne, Tate Publishing: London, 1997, pp. 38, 50
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Comment
The drawing is probably of Ugbrooke Park. The preparatory sketch on which this must have been based has been lost.