- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- Warwick Castle
- Date
- 1813/08/27
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and grey ink, watercolour
- Dimensions
-
- image height 175mm,
- image width 514mm
- Support
- two sheets
- Inscription
-
- sheet, verso
- “from half-past 3 to 6 o’clock, August 27. 1813”, according to a 1953 letter from Walker’s Galleries (Agnew’s archives); however, Christie’s in 2003 gave the inscription as “Warwick Castle Aug 27.1813. / Francis Towne”, though implying it was not in Towne’s hand
- Part of
-
- 1813 Sketchbook
- Object Type
- Watercolour
-
- Catalogue Number
- FT756
- Description Sources
- Examination; Christie's records (image); Agnew's 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 (1745–1844) and his successors. Merivale’s granddaughters Maria Sophia Merivale (1853–1928) and Judith Ann Merivale (1860–1945), both of Oxford, inherited the drawing in May 1915 as part of a sketchbook containing FT752 to FT764, which they sold in 1927 to Walker’s Galleries for £60. It is thereafter untraced until its sale at Christie’s by “a lady” on 5 June 2003, lot 53, for £5,500, whereafter it is untraced.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Untraced
- Christie's, London, London, 5 June 2003, lot 53
- Walker's Galleries, London, 1927, GBP 60
Within a sketchbook containing FT752 to FT764. - Judith Ann Merivale (1860 - 1945), Oxford, May 1915
- Maria Sophia Merivale (1853 - 1928), Oxford, May 1915
- John Herman Merivale (1779 - 1844), 1825
- James White (1744 - 1825), Exeter, 1816
Other entries in 1813 Sketchbook
Francis Towne
The Old Schools, Radcliffe Camera, and the Entrance to Trinity College Gardens
The Old Schools, Radcliffe Camera, and the Entrance to Trinity College Gardens
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Comment
In the Agnew’s card-index file two Warwick subjects are mentioned as having been on sale at Walker’s Galleries in 1944, but Walker himself does not mention a second work in his 1953 letter that lists all the Towne drawings he had ever sold.