- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- Werrington Park
- Date
- No date
- Medium
- Watercolour
- Dimensions
-
- image width 182mm,
- image length 232mm
- Mount
- mounted by the artist
- Inscription
-
- sheet, recto, lower right
- “F.Towne / delt”
- in grey ink, the second line partially cut off
- Inscription
-
- artist's mount, verso
- “This drawing done on the Spot / in Werington Park / in the County of Devon / by / Francis Towne”
- in dark brown ink
- Object Type
- Watercolour
-
- Catalogue Number
- FT589a
- Description Sources
- Examination
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 granddaughters Maria Sophia Merivale (1853–1928) and Judith Ann Merivale (1860–1945), both of Oxford, inherited the drawing in May 1915 (no BP number is recorded). Judith Merivale gave it to her niece, Patricia Rawlins, who bequeathed it to the current owner.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Private Collection
- Patricia Rawlins
- 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
- Bibliography
- Paul Oppé, 'Francis Towne, Landscape Painter', The Walpole Society: London, 1920, p. 125
Other entries in Cornwall, Including Werrington, 1787–99
Francis Towne
A Scene in Werrington Park, near Launceston in Cornwall
A Scene in Werrington Park, near Launceston in Cornwall
Francis Towne
A Scene taken at Newport near Launceston, Cornwall
A Scene taken at Newport near Launceston, Cornwall
Francis Towne
A View in Werrington Park, looking from the Terrace
A View in Werrington Park, looking from the Terrace
Francis Towne
Francis Towne and an Unidentified Pupil: A View of Launceston from Newport
Francis Towne and an Unidentified Pupil: A View of Launceston from Newport
Footnotes
- 1 Paul Oppé records: notes, ca. 1915; Oppé 1920, p.125.
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Comment
In a note Oppé mentioned this work in passing when referring to its then owner: “212 Wemworthy 1796. Light & fragile. blue & green. No outline. pure flimsy watercolour of Peamore. (another Mrs. Rawlins has)”. In his article Oppé calls the drawing “a queer mosaic of flimsy transparent colour”.1