- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- Much Wenlock, Shropshire, with the Ruins of the Priory Church
- Date
- ca. 1783
- Medium
- Pen and black ink, watercolour
- Dimensions
-
- image width 230mm,
- image length 330mm
- Inscription
-
- sheet, recto, lower right
- “Francis Towne delt 1783”
- in pen, written in a formal manner
- Inscription
-
- sheet, verso
- “Much Wenlock, Shropshire, with the Ruins of the Priory Church and the Parish Church of Holy Trinity in the Distance”
- Object Type
- Watercolour
-
- Versions
- Wenlock Priory
- Catalogue Number
- FT396
- Description Sources
- Sotheby's records (image)
Provenance
Untraced apart from its sale at Sotheby’s on 16 March 1978, lot 175, by R. M. H. Evans.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Untraced
- R. M. H. Evans, 16 March 1978
- Sotheby's, London, London, 16 March 1978, lot 175
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Comment
This is a version of FT069, drawn on 21 June 1777. It is one of two Shropshire views that are dated 1783 and based on drawings of 1777.