Description
Creator
Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
Title(s)
  • Dunsford Bridge
Date
No date
Medium
Pencil, pen and grey ink, watercolour
Part of
  • 1815 Sketchbook
Object Type
Watercolour

Catalogue Number
FT784
Description Sources
Agnew's records

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 25 February 1939 Agnew’s (no.2705) sold it to D. J. L. Perkins (b. ca. 1902), whereafter it was untraced until it was acquired by a private collector.

Associated People & Organisations

D. L. J. Perkins (ca. 1902 - ?), 25 February 1939
Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 17 May 1938, GBP 60, no.2705
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
Private Collection
Exhibition History
[?] 66th Annual Exhibition of Water Colour and Pencil Drawings, Thomas Agnew & Sons, 1939, no. 139

Comment

Agnew’s listed this as the nineteenth sketch in the book.

by Richard Stephens

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