- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
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- Chudleigh Park
- Date
- No date
- Medium
- Pen and black ink, watercolour
- Dimensions
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- image width 205mm,
- image length 190mm
- Support
- paper indistinctly watermarked
- Inscription
-
- sheet, verso
- “Chudleigh”; if the drawing is BP205, it is numbered “9”, dated “1787”, and inscribed “Chudleigh Park”
- Object Type
- Watercolour
-
- Catalogue Number
- FT538
- Description Sources
- Sotheby’s records (image)
Provenance
Untraced apart from its sale at Sotheby’s on 16 July 1981, lot 78, for £500. However, either this or FT540 is probably BP205, which appears not to have left the Merivale family during the lifetime of Judith Ann Merivale (1860–1945).
- Associated People & Organisations
- Sotheby's, London, London, 16 August 1981, GBP 500
lot 78 - [?] Judith Ann Merivale (1860 - 1945), Oxford, May 1915, BP205
- [?] Maria Sophia Merivale (1853 - 1928), Oxford, May 1915, BP205
- [?] John Herman Merivale (1779 - 1844), 1825
- [?] James White (1744 - 1825), Exeter, 1816
Other entries in Canonteign, Chudleigh, and Dunsford, 1783–1803
Footnotes
- 1 Paul Oppé records: notes, ca. 1915.
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Comment
This is a view of Chudleigh Rock, near Chudleigh. On the grounds of its subject and compatibility with Oppé’s note, it is quite likely to be BP205; the note reads: “205 & 206. 1787. Loose violet & hatches. Flooded, ink slight.”1 The other drawing of these two is here catalogued as FT539.