- Description
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- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
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- Porlock Bay
- Date
- ca. 1785/10
- Medium
- Pen and black ink, blue and grey washes
- Dimensions
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- image width 303mm,
- image length 241mm
- Object Type
- Monochrome wash
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- Collection
- Catalogue Number
- FT447
- Description Sources
- Examination; Brown 1982 (image)
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 drawing in May 1915 (BP216) and in 1924 sold it for £12 12s. to Alic Halford Smith (1883–1958). Smith bequeathed it to the present owner, the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (WA1959.12.2).
- Associated People & Organisations
- Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1958, WA1959.12.2
- Alic Halford Smith (1883 - 1958), 1924, GBP 12.12s
- Judith Ann Merivale (1860 - 1945), Oxford, May 1915, BP216
- Maria Sophia Merivale (1853 - 1928), Oxford, May 1915, BP216
- John Herman Merivale (1779 - 1844), 1825
- James White (1744 - 1825), Exeter, 1816
- Bibliography
- David Blaney Brown, Ashmolean Museum Catalogue of Drawings Vol 4: Earlier English Drawings, Clarendon: Oxford, 1982, p. 160 (as by John White Abbott)
Other entries in Acland Estates, 1785–86
Francis Towne
Holnicote, Somerset, the Seat of Sir Thomas Acland
Holnicote, Somerset, the Seat of Sir Thomas Acland
Francis Towne
A View taken at Killerton, the Seat of Sir Thomas Acland, Bt
A View taken at Killerton, the Seat of Sir Thomas Acland, Bt
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Comment
The Barton Place catalogue gives no indication of the location of this bay, calling it simply “A Bay Indian ink & blue wash”. The museum has catalogued this as the work of John White Abbott, but it is clearly Towne’s drawing. As it is a view of Porlock Bay, it was probably drawn in October 1785 around the time of two other Porlock studies (FT437, FT438).