- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- A Mill near Holnicote
- Date
- 1786/12/22
- Medium
- Pen and black ink, watercolour
- Dimensions
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- image width 165mm,
- image length 210mm
- Support
- laid paper
- Inscription
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- sheet, recto
- “F Towne delt / 1786”
- in brown ink
- Inscription
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- label, verso
- “A Mill near Holnicote / Taken at 4 O Clock Decr. 22. 1786 / by / Francis Towne”
- in brown ink on a label attached to the modern frame
- Object Type
- Watercolour
-
- Catalogue Number
- FT453
- Description Sources
- Chris Beetles records (image); John Spink catalogue; Examination
Provenance
Untraced prior to its exhibition at Chris Beetles Ltd in 2001. It was offered for sale for £28,000 by John Spink in November 2005 and was acquired by an English private collector in 2014.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Private Collection, November 2005, GBP 28000
- John Spink, London, November 2005
- Chris Beetles, London, 2001
Other entries in Acland Estates, 1785–86
Francis Towne
Holnicote, Somerset, the Seat of Sir Thomas Acland
Holnicote, Somerset, the Seat of Sir Thomas Acland
Francis Towne
A View taken at Killerton, the Seat of Sir Thomas Acland, Bt
A View taken at Killerton, the Seat of Sir Thomas Acland, Bt
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Comment
This is a sketch of Piles Mill near Allerford (fig.1), now a National Trust property.
Presumably the label bearing the inscription was once stuck to the drawing or else is a fragment of the original mount, now lost, which also included the rest of the inscription.
Figure 1.
Anonymous Photographer, Piles Mill, Somerset, 1931
Digital image courtesy of www.windmillworld.com