Description
Creator
Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
Title(s)
  • Landscape
Date
1790
Medium
Pencil, watercolour
Dimensions
  • image width 387mm,
  • image length 546mm
Mount
mounted by the artist
Inscription
  • sheet, recto, lower left
  • “F.Towne delt / 1790”
Inscription
  • artist's mount, verso
  • signed and dated

Versions
Landscape
Catalogue Number
FT554
Description Sources
Sotheby's records (image)

Provenance

Commissioned by Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, Bt (1752–1794), for 8 guineas and descended in his family until sold by Sir Richard Thomas Dyke Acland, Bt (1906–1990), at Sotheby’s on 21 November 1968, lot 29, for £2,600 to Leger Galleries, whereafter it is untraced.

Associated People & Organisations

Untraced
Leger Galleries, 21 November 1968
Sotheby's, London, London, 21 November 1968, GBP 2600, lot 29
Sir Richard Thomas Acland (1906 - 1990), November 1968
Sir Thomas Dyke Acland (1752 - 1794), Exwick, Exeter, 1790, GBP 8 guineas
Exhibition History
English Occasions, Leger Galleries, 1969, no. 19
Bibliography
Paul Oppé, 'Francis Towne, Landscape Painter', The Walpole Society: London, 1920, p. 122

Comment

This drawing is a version of FT443.

by Richard Stephens

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