- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- Part of Ambleside
- Date
- 1786/08/07
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and brown ink, watercolour
- Dimensions
-
- image width 159mm,
- image length 235mm
- Mount
- mounted by the artist
- Inscription
-
- sheet, recto, lower left
- “F.Towne”
- Inscription
-
- artist's mount, verso
- “No.11 Morning light from the right hand 8 o’clock Part of Ambleside at the head of the Lake of Windermere. Drawn by Francis Towne August 7 1786, London July 5th Leicester Square: 1791”
- Object Type
- Watercolour
-
- Collection
- Catalogue Number
- FT466
- Description Sources
- Examination; Museum records (image)
Provenance
Untraced until presented in 1924 by Fanny Jane Elizabeth Douglas (b.1865) to the current owner, the Victoria and Albert Museum (P.24-1924). Fanny Douglas was the daughter of John White Abbott’s son Revd John White Abbott (b.1799) by his fourth wife Jane Skardon.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1924, P.24-1924
- Fanny Jane Elizabeth Douglas (1865)
- Rev John White Abbott (1799 - ?)
- John White Abbott (1763 - 1851)
- Exhibition History
- [?] Exhibition of Original Drawings at the Gallery, No.20 Lower Brook Street, Grosvenor Square, 20 Lower Brook Street, 1805, no. 72 as 'Part of Ambleside'
- Bibliography
- Adrian Bury, Francis Towne - Lone Star of Water-Colour Painting, Charles Skilton: London, 1962, p. 128
Other entries in Lake District, 1786
Francis Towne
A View at Ambleside, near Sir Michael Fleming’s on the Road to Keswick
A View at Ambleside, near Sir Michael Fleming’s on the Road to Keswick
Francis Towne
A View taken at Ambleside at the Head of Lake Windermere
A View taken at Ambleside at the Head of Lake Windermere
Francis Towne
Looking from Ambleside across Lake Windermere
Looking from Ambleside across Lake Windermere
Francis Towne
A View near the Turnpike on the Way from Low Wood to Ambleside
A View near the Turnpike on the Way from Low Wood to Ambleside
Francis Towne
Looking to the Mountains over the Head of Buttermere
Looking to the Mountains over the Head of Buttermere
Francis Towne
A View at Low Wood, looking across the Head of Lake Windermere
A View at Low Wood, looking across the Head of Lake Windermere
Francis Towne
Raven Crag and Part of Thirlmere
Raven Crag and Part of Thirlmere
Fitzwilliam Fitzwilliam Museum
Francis Towne
St John’s in the Vale, looking towards Grasmere
St John’s in the Vale, looking towards Grasmere
Francis Towne
St John’s in the Vale looking towards Keswick
St John’s in the Vale looking towards Keswick
Francis Towne
A View in St John’s in the Vale looking towards Keswick
A View in St John’s in the Vale looking towards Keswick
Francis Towne
On the Side of Lake Windermere, near the Turnpike
On the Side of Lake Windermere, near the Turnpike
Francis Towne
A View of Derwent Water looking towards Lodore Falls
A View of Derwent Water looking towards Lodore Falls
Francis Towne
A View from the Cascade in the Groves at Ambleside
A View from the Cascade in the Groves at Ambleside
Francis Towne
At Ambleside coming from the Cascade in the Groves
At Ambleside coming from the Cascade in the Groves
Francis Towne
A View of Rydal Water looking towards Rydal Hall
A View of Rydal Water looking towards Rydal Hall
Francis Towne
Elter Force, near Ambleside
Elter Force, near Ambleside
National Gallery National Gallery of Victoria
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Comment
Although this is numbered 11, it appears to have been among the very first drawings Towne made in the Lake District, as it was drawn at 8:00 am on 7 August, the earliest date given to his work there (see also FT456, drawn the same morning). It has something of the Italianate flavour of FT464. With the sun rising on the right, it is presumably a view looking north on the road to Keswick.