- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- Bickleigh Vale from Plym Bridge
- Date
- 1815/09/04
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and grey ink, watercolour
- Dimensions
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- image height 140mm,
- image width 229mm
- Inscription
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- sheet, verso
- “Bickley Vale from Plym Bridge”, signed, numbered “14”, and dated “Septr 4th 1815”
- Part of
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- 1815 Sketchbook
- Object Type
- Watercolour
-
- Catalogue Number
- FT778
- Description Sources
- Leger Galleries records; Christie's records (image)
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 as part of a sketchbook containing FT765 to FT786, which they gave to their cousin Mary Ann Loveband (b.1865, alive in 1951), who sold the book to Agnew’s on 17 May 1938 for £60. On 15 October 1938 Agnew’s (no.2700) sold this drawing to William Theophilus Wiggins Davies of Birmingham (d. ca. 1960). It was sold by Sir L. Haley at Christie’s on 7 June 1946, lot 119 (a pair with FT786), to Agnew’s (no.4642), who sold it on 17 June 1946 to Sir John Heathcoat Amory, Bt (1894–1972), who sold it back to Agnew’s (no.7429) on 8 March 1954 for £130 with 786. On 10 December 1954 Agnew’s sold it for £90 to J. Hawkesley Elliott of Sheffield (d. ca. 1978), whose daughter sold it at Christie’s on 14 March 1978, lot 97, for £1,900 to Leger Galleries, whereafter it is untraced.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Untraced
- Leger Galleries, London, 14 March 1978, GBP 1900
- Christie's, London, London, 14 March 1978, lot 97
- Joseph Hawksley Elliot (1884 - 1978), 10 December 1954, GBP 90
- Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 8 March 1954, GBP 130, no.7429
- Sir John Heathcoat Amory (1894 - 1972), 17 June 1946
- Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 7 June 1946, no.4642
- Christie's, London, London, 7 June 1946, lot 119
- Sir L. Haley, June 1946
- William Theophilus Wiggins Davis ( - ca. 1960), Birmingham, 15 October 1938
- Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 17 May 1938, GBP 60, no.2700
- Mary Ann Loveband (1865 - alive in 1951)
- Judith Ann Merivale (1860 - 1945), Oxford, May 1915
Inherited as part of a sketchbook containing FT765 to FT786. - Maria Sophia Merivale (1853 - 1928), Oxford, May 1915
Inherited as part of a sketchbook containing FT765 to FT786. - John Herman Merivale (1779 - 1844), 1825
- James White (1744 - 1825), Exeter, 1816
- Exhibition History
- 72nd Annual Exhibition of Water-Colour Drawings, Thomas Agnew & Sons, 1945, no. 3
- Loan Exhibition: English Watercolours and Drawings from Local Collections, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, 1949, no. 17
- Three Exeter Artists of the Eighteenth Century: Francis Hayman RA, Francis Towne, John White Abbott, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, 1951, no. 43
- 81st Annual Exhibition of Water-Colour Drawings, Thomas Agnew & Sons, 1955, no. 33
- English Watercolours, Leger Galleries, 1978, no. 13
Other entries in 1815 Sketchbook
On the Road over the Moor to Tavistock
Maurice Dear
Fort Olda with Part of the Abbey, Tavistock
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