- Description
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- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
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- Powderham Castle
- Date
- ca. 1770 - 1780
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, watercolour
- Dimensions
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- image width 146mm,
- image length 295mm
- Support
- paper with a vertical crease down the centre, watermarked with an encircled "GR" below a crown
- Object Type
- Watercolour
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- Catalogue Number
- FT045
- Description Sources
- Information at Christie's, London
Provenance
Untraced until acquired by Spink & Son on 17 June 1976. It was on sale at Spink’s 1977 exhibition and they sold it at Christie’s on 18 June 1980, lot 69, for £418.75 to a UK private collector. Given the coincidence of subject, the drawing catalogued here may well be BP222, which the Barton Place catalogue called House-Powderham and which Judith Merivale attempted to sell in the late 1930s but which was returned to her unsold in October 1939. BP222 was probably the drawing on sale at Squire Gallery in 1938.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Christie's, London
- John Herman Merivale (1779 - 1844)
- Judith Ann Merivale (1860 - 1945)
- Maria Sophia Merivale (1853 - 1928)
- Spink & Son, London
- Squire Gallery
- Untraced
- James White (1744 - 1825)
- Exhibition History
- [?] Annual Water Colour Exhibition 1926, The Judge's Lodgings, Winchester, 1926, no. 121 as 'Powderham'
- [?] Exhibition of Watercolours and Drawings from Francis Barlow to Henry Tonks, Squire Gallery, London, 1938, no. no.12, as 'From Powderham Park'
- English Watercolour Drawings, Spink & Son, London, 1977, no. no.22, as 'A View of Powderham Castle, Devon, From the Park.'
Other entries in West Country Sketches, 1772–80
Francis Towne
A View of Exeter, taken between Exwick and Cowley Bridge
A View of Exeter, taken between Exwick and Cowley Bridge
Francis Towne
A View of Berry Pomeroy Castle within the Gateway
A View of Berry Pomeroy Castle within the Gateway
Francis Towne
A View going up from the Lake in Peamore Park
A View going up from the Lake in Peamore Park
Francis Towne
A View from the Hill above the Lake at Peamore
A View from the Hill above the Lake at Peamore
Francis Towne
A View near Exwell, looking towards Topsham
A View near Exwell, looking towards Topsham
Francis Towne
A View of the Waterfall at Lidford in the County of Devon
A View of the Waterfall at Lidford in the County of Devon
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Comment
This is a view looking broadly south-west, at right angles to the view in FT043. The paper and composition—with its large sky, winding paths, and distant subject—mark this as probably a drawing of the 1770s, perhaps a study for an oil painting.