Description
Creator
Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
Title(s)
  • Unidentified Tinted Drawing
Date
No date
Object Type
Unknown

Catalogue Number
FT123
Description Sources
Christie's records
Associated People & Organisations

Untraced
Farthing, 15 February 1817, GBP 1 3s
Christie's, London, London, 15 February 1817, lot 1
It was sold by the 3rd Viscount William Courtenay to Christie's who then sold it to Farthing
2nd Viscount William Courtenay (1742 - 1788)
3rd Viscount William Courtenay (1768 - 1835)
Bibliography
Timothy Wilcox, Francis Towne, Tate Publishing: London, 1997, pp. 36-37, 130

Comment

Commissioned by 2nd Viscount Courtenay and sold by his son, 3rd Viscount Courtenay, at Christie’s on 15 February 1817 was a group of “Capital Loose Drawings by Towne”. Lot 1, “View of Powderham Park and Belvedere, View of the Fort and across the River Exe, one other, tinted”, for £1 3s. to Farthing. This is the “one other, tinted”, the other two drawings in the lot are FT119 and FT121.

by Richard Stephens

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