- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- Hyde Park
- Hyde Park, Study of a tree on the ground
- Date
- 1797/06/19
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and brown ink, watercolour
- Dimensions
-
- image width 451mm,
- image length 368mm
- Support
- paper with the watermark “Shorter 134”
- Mount
- mounted by the artist
- Inscription
-
- sheet, recto, lower right
- “F.Towne / delt. 1797”
- Inscription
-
- sheet, recto
- “L.Brown / Bark / Rotten / White / India”
- on fallen tree
- Inscription
-
- artist's mount, verso
- “This Drawing taken in Hyde Park / June the 19th. 1797 / on the Spot by / Francis Towne / No.114 / New Bond Street / London.”
- Object Type
- Watercolour
-
- Collection
- Catalogue Number
- FT592
- Description Sources
- Museum records (image)
Provenance
Untraced until 23 July 1947, when bought from Squire Gallery by Colnaghi (no.A14661), who sold it the following day for £200 to Gilbert Davis (1899–1983). According to museum records, Davis sold it back to Colnaghi in 1953, where it was purchased the following year by the present owner, the Toledo Museum of Art (Acc. 1954.39). It seems very likely that Squire acquired the drawing from a Merivale source, though no records exist to confirm this.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, 1954, Acc. 1954.39
- P&D Colnaghi & Co, London, 1953
- Gilbert Davis (1899 - 1983), GBP 200
- P&D Colnaghi & Co, London, 23 July 1947, no.A14661
- Squire Gallery, London, 23 July 1947
- Exhibition History
- [?] Exhibition of Original Drawings at the Gallery, No.20 Lower Brook Street, Grosvenor Square, 20 Lower Brook Street, 1805, no. 17 as 'Hyde Park, Study of a tree on the ground'
- British Water-Colours and Drawings from the Gilbert Davis Collection, Arts Council, 1949, no. 10
- Three Exeter Artists of the Eighteenth Century: Francis Hayman RA, Francis Towne, John White Abbott, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, 1951, no. 27
- Romantic Art in Britain, Detroit Institute of Arts, 1968, no. 54
- Bibliography
- Adrian Bury, Francis Towne - Lone Star of Water-Colour Painting, Charles Skilton: London, 1962, pp. 95, 103, 139
- Martin Hardie, Water-Colour Painting in Britain, ed. Dudley Snelgrove, London: B. T. Batsford, 1966, pp. 124, 127
- Henri Lemaitre, Le Paysage Anglais a l'Aquarelle 1760-1951, Bordas: Paris, 1955, p. 167
- A. Staley, 'Review: Water-Colour Painting in Britain', Art Bulletin, College Art Association of America: Providence Rhode Island, 1973, p. 154
- William Thomas Whitley, Art in England 1800-1820, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1928, p. 93
- Timothy Wilcox, Francis Towne, Tate Publishing: London, 1997, p. 128
Other entries in London, Hampshire and Surrey, ca. 1782-1801
Francis Towne
A View in Hyde Park looking towards the Serpentine River
A View in Hyde Park looking towards the Serpentine River
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