- Description
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- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
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- The Cattewater
- The Catwater, Plymouth
- Date
- 1815
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and grey ink, watercolour
- Part of
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- 1815 Sketchbook
- Object Type
- Watercolour
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- Catalogue Number
- FT782
- Description Sources
- Agnew's records
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 as part of a sketchbook containing FT765 to FT786, which they gave to their cousin Mary Ann Loveband (b.1865, alive in 1951), who sold the book to Agnew’s on 17 May 1938 for £60. On 2 February 1939 Agnew’s (no.2704) sold this drawing to James Cyril Butterwick of Penn, Buckinghamshire (1890/1891–1966), who sold it back to Agnew’s (no.3696) on 6 January 1944 (also 774). Agnew’s sold it on 16 February 1944 to D. L. J. Perkins for £18, whereafter it was untraced until it was acquired by a private collector.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Private Collection
- D. L. J. Perkins (ca. 1902 - ?), 16 February 1944, GBP 18
- Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 6 January 1944, no.3696
- James Cyril Butterwick, 2 February 1939
- Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 17 May 1938, GBP 60, no.2704
- Mary Ann Loveband (1865 - alive in 1951)
- Judith Ann Merivale (1860 - 1945), Oxford, May 1915
Inherited as part of a sketchbook containing FT765 to FT786. - Maria Sophia Merivale (1853 - 1928), Oxford, May 1915
Inherited as part of a sketchbook containing FT765 to FT786. - John Herman Merivale (1779 - 1844), 1825
- James White (1744 - 1825), Exeter, 1816
Other entries in 1815 Sketchbook
On the Road over the Moor to Tavistock
Maurice Dear
Fort Olda with Part of the Abbey, Tavistock
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Comment
The Cattewater is the channel of water into which the River Plym flows as it heads into Plymouth Sound. It is unknown if the drawing is numbered, but in 1938 Agnew’s listed it eighteenth among the twenty-three works described in the sketchbook.