- Description
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- Creator
- attributed to Francis Towne
- Title(s)
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- Riverside Buildings
- Backs of Houses by the Water
- Date
- No date
- Medium
- Pen and grey ink, watercolour
- Dimensions
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- image length 203mm,
- image width 216mm
- Mount
- in an eighteenth-century mount
- Object Type
- Watercolour
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- Collection
-
- (1956)
- Catalogue Number
- FT872
- Description Sources
- Museum records (image)
Provenance
Untraced until acquired in ca. 1949 by Walker’s Galleries, from whom it was bought in 1956 by the present owner, the Museum and Art Gallery, Newport.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Newport Museum and Art Gallery, Newport, 1956
- Walker's Galleries, London, 1949
- Exhibition History
- unidentified exhibition, Walker's Galleries, 1949, no. 153 as 'Backs of Houses by the Water by Towne'
- Bibliography
- Adrian Bury, Francis Towne - Lone Star of Water-Colour Painting, Charles Skilton: London, 1962, p. 137 (as by Towne)
Other entries in Unidentified Subjects, ca. 1783–1800
Francis Towne
Landscape with Horseman and Goats
Landscape with Horseman and Goats
National Gallery National Gallery of Victoria
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Comment
The subject of this scene is unknown, but possibly these are buildings at the south-eastern edge of Exeter.