- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- Near Devil’s Bridge, Cardiganshire
- Near the Devil’s Bridge – Cattle at Sunset
- Date
- 1810
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and grey ink, watercolour
- Dimensions
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- image width 171mm,
- image width 254mm
- Inscription
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- sheet, verso
- “Near the Devil’s Bridge”
- Part of
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- 1810 Sketchbook
- Object Type
- Watercolour
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- Catalogue Number
- FT694
- Description Sources
- Fine Art Society records (image)
Provenance
Bequeathed by Francis Towne 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 drawing in May 1915 within a sketchbook containing FT689 to FT714, much or all of which by 1963 was owned by Mr and Mrs Sutton of New Zealand. On 19 June 1963 they sold seventeen drawings from the book to the Fine Art Society (no.7772) for £3,750. Although this drawing was photographed by the Fine Art Society, which gave it the title “Near the Devil’s Bridge – Cattle at Sunset”, it was not exhibited in 1964 among the seventeen drawings purchased from the Suttons, and its provenance is unknown.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Untraced
- The Fine Art Society, London, London, 19 June 1963, GBP 3750
- Mr & Mrs Sutton, New Zealand, June 1962
- Judith Ann Merivale (1860 - 1945), Oxford, May 1915
The drawing was inherited within a sketchbook containing FT689 to FT714. - Maria Sophia Merivale (1853 - 1928), Oxford, May 1915
The drawing was inherited within a sketchbook containing FT689 to FT714. - John Herman Merivale (1779 - 1844), 1825
- James White (1744 - 1825), Exeter, 1816
- Bibliography
- Timothy Wilcox, Francis Towne, Tate Publishing: London, 1997, p. 140
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