- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
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- Landscape Study
- Date
- No date
- Medium
- Unknown
- Dimensions
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- [?] image width 149mm,
- [?] image length 216mm
- Part of
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- Cornish sketchbook
- Object Type
- Watercolour
-
- Catalogue Number
- FT606
- Description Sources
- Barton Place catalogue; Paul Oppé notes
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 drawings in May 1915 (BP232–37, 250, 251), whereafter they are untraced.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Untraced
- Judith Ann Merivale (1860 - 1945), Oxford, May 1915, among BP232 to 237
- Maria Sophia Merivale (1853 - 1928), Oxford, May 1915, among BP232 to 237
- John Herman Merivale (1779 - 1844), 1825
- James White (1744 - 1825), Exeter, 1816
Other entries in Cornwall, Including Werrington, 1787–99
Francis Towne
A Scene in Werrington Park, near Launceston in Cornwall
A Scene in Werrington Park, near Launceston in Cornwall
Francis Towne
A Scene taken at Newport near Launceston, Cornwall
A Scene taken at Newport near Launceston, Cornwall
Francis Towne
A View in Werrington Park, looking from the Terrace
A View in Werrington Park, looking from the Terrace
Francis Towne
Francis Towne and an Unidentified Pupil: A View of Launceston from Newport
Francis Towne and an Unidentified Pupil: A View of Launceston from Newport
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Comment
Paul Oppé recorded FT605, FT606, and FT607 in the Barton Place catalogue as “three pages from Cornish sketchbook”, although, as they are given six BP numbers, there may be three further drawings that are not catalogued here. In his notes Oppé described them thus: “Same [as FT604] Rocks trees etc. 250 & 251 same book. Pastorals mainly.”1 Although he compared these works to FT604, in his article Oppé wrote: “The Cornish drawings, outlines from a sketch-book, are totally different [from the Werington drawings].”2