- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- A View of Ivy Bridge
- Date
- 1784
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and black ink, watercolour
- Dimensions
-
- image width 232mm,
- image length 347mm
- Mount
- mounted by the artist
- Inscription
-
- sheet, recto, lower right
- “F.Towne. delt. / 1784”
- Inscription
-
- label, verso
- “A View of Ivy Bridge / in the County of Devon / drawn from the spot by / Francis Towne”
- now detached from the drawing
- Object Type
- Watercolour
-
- Collection
-
- (1953P401)
- Versions
- Ivy Bridge in Devon
- Catalogue Number
- FT412
- Description Sources
- Examination; Museum records (image)
Provenance
Untraced until owned by J. Leslie Wright (1862–1953), who bequeathed it to the present owner, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (Inv. P401'53).
- Associated People & Organisations
- Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, 1953, Inv. P401'53
- James Leslie Wright (1862 - 1953)
- Exhibition History
- Early English Water-Colours and Drawings, Squire Gallery, 1933
- Exhibition of Masters of British Water-Colour (17th-19th Centuries) The J. Leslie Wright Collection, Royal Academy, 1949, no. 146
- Three Exeter Artists of the Eighteenth Century: Francis Hayman RA, Francis Towne, John White Abbott, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, 1951, no. 52
- British Watercolours from Birmingham, Tokyo and tour, 1991
- British Watercolours from Birmingham, Bankside Gallery, 1992, no. 6
- Bibliography
- Henri Lemaitre, Le Paysage Anglais a l'Aquarelle 1760-1951, Bordas: Paris, 1955, p. 167
- Adrian Bury, Francis Towne - Lone Star of Water-Colour Painting, Charles Skilton: London, 1962, p. 135
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A View going from the Head of Lake Como over Mount Splugen
A View going from the Head of Lake Como over Mount Splugen
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A View on the Banks of the Dee above Llangollen
A View on the Banks of the Dee above Llangollen
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A View of the Bay of Naples with the Island of Capri
A View of the Bay of Naples with the Island of Capri
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Comment
This is a version of a drawing of 1775 (FT052) presumably made on commission.