- Description
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- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
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- A View in Ugbrooke Park
- Date
- 1774/10/04 - 1775
- Medium
- Pen and black ink, grey wash
- Dimensions
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- image width 286mm,
- image length 451mm
- Mount
- mounted by the artist
- Inscription
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- sheet, recto, lower left
- “F.Towne 1775”
- Inscription
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- verso
- “No 4 / A View in Ugbrooke Park. The seat of the Right Honble Lord Clifford / Drawn on the spot by Francis Towne / Oct the 4th 1774”
- Inscribed on “the modern backing”
- Object Type
- Monochrome wash
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- Catalogue Number
- FT053
- Description Sources
- Examination; Tate catalogue (image)
Provenance
Commissioned by Hugh, 4th Baron Clifford of Chudleigh (1726–1783), and descended to the present owner.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Hugh Clifford, 4th Baron Clifford of Chudleigh (1726 - 1783)
- Private Collection
- Exhibition History
- Three Exeter Artists of the Eighteenth Century: Francis Hayman RA, Francis Towne, John White Abbott, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, 1951, no. 75
- Francis Towne, Tate Gallery; Leeds City Art Gallery, 24 June 1997 - 4 January 1998, no. 2
- Bibliography
- Adrian Bury, Francis Towne - Lone Star of Water-Colour Painting, Charles Skilton: London, 1962, p. 140
- Timothy Wilcox, Francis Towne, Tate Publishing: London, 1997, p. 38
Other entries in Studio Watercolours, 1770s
Francis Towne
Landscape with Resting Man, perhaps at Canon Teign
Landscape with Resting Man, perhaps at Canon Teign
Francis Towne
A View of the Arch in Peamore Park looking towards the House
A View of the Arch in Peamore Park looking towards the House
Francis Towne
A View coming from the Belvedere to Powderham Castle
A View coming from the Belvedere to Powderham Castle
Francis Towne
Torre Abbey, Devon, the Seat of George Cary, Esq.
Torre Abbey, Devon, the Seat of George Cary, Esq.
Footnotes
- 1 Wilcox went further, suggesting that Towne’s source was La Grande Chasse, an etching by Jacques Callot: Wilcox 1997, p.38.
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Comment
This is a view of the park from the Danish encampment looking south towards the lakes and house. It is one of several works commissioned by Lord Clifford in the first half of the 1770s which represent parts of Ugbrooke Park untouched by Clifford’s landscape developments.
Towne has featured three huntsmen and a dog at bottom left and figures making their way down the hill in the centre, all drawn in the manner of Bolognese draughtsmen of the seventeenth century.1 The study for Towne’s drawing, which must have been made on 4 October 1774, has not survived.