- Description
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- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
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- Landscape, perhaps of Cadair Idris
- Date
- No date
- Medium
- Unknown
- Object Type
- Unknown
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- Catalogue Number
- FT081
- Description Sources
- Paul Oppé records; Bury
Provenance
In the collection of Sir John Heathcoat Amory, Bt (1894–1972), in 1962.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Untraced
- Sir John Heathcoat Amory (1894 - 1972), 1962
- Bibliography
- Adrian Bury, Francis Towne - Lone Star of Water-Colour Painting, Charles Skilton: London, 1962, p. 144
Other entries in Tour of Wales, 1777
Francis Towne
View of a Mountain, Perhaps near Aberddwlas
View of a Mountain, Perhaps near Aberddwlas
Francis Towne
A View near Dolgelly with Part of Cader Idris
A View near Dolgelly with Part of Cader Idris
Francis Towne
A View of the Salmon Leap from Pont Aberglaslyn
A View of the Salmon Leap from Pont Aberglaslyn
Francis Towne
The West Front of Tintern Abbey
The West Front of Tintern Abbey
Chepstow Chepstow Museum and Art Gallery
Francis Towne
The Ruins of the Great Room in Ludlow Castle, Shopshire, where Milton’s Comus was Performed
The Ruins of the Great Room in Ludlow Castle, Shopshire, where Milton’s Comus was Performed
Footnotes
- 1 Bury 1962, p.144.
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Comment
Bury describes two drawings of Cadair Idris in Sir John Heathcoat Amory’s collection, with (according to Agnew’s files) identical provenances:
The dimensions of neither fit well with those given by Oppé (see the Comment at FT080); whereas Bury was probably relying on second-hand information from the owner, Oppé made eyesight estimates. It is unclear which of Bury’s drawings is the one Oppé’s note describes, and it may be that the subject of one is not, in fact, Cadair Idris; certainly his mention of pine trees rings alarm bells. It is fairly clear, though, that two drawings did exist in 1962.