- Description
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- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
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- Ugbrooke Park
- Date
- 1773/07/16
- Medium
- Pen and black ink, grey wash
- Dimensions
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- image width 283mm,
- image length 451mm
- Mount
- mounted by the artist
- Inscription
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- artist's mount, recto, lower left
- “F.Towne delt”, and lower right, “1773”
- Inscription
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- artist's mount, verso
- “A view in Ugbrooke Park, the seat of the Right Honble. Lord Clifford, drawn on the spot by Francis Towne. July the 16th 1773”
- Object Type
- Monochrome wash
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- Versions
- A View in Ugbrooke Park
- Catalogue Number
- FT037
- Description Sources
- Witt Library (image); 1951 Exeter catalogue
Provenance
Commissioned by Hugh, 4th Baron Clifford of Chudleigh (1726–1783), and descended to the present owner.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Private Collection
- [?] Hugh Clifford, 4th Baron Clifford of Chudleigh (1726 - 1783), Chudleigh, Devon, 1773
- Exhibition History
- Three Exeter Artists of the Eighteenth Century: Francis Hayman RA, Francis Towne, John White Abbott, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, 1951, no. 71
- Bibliography
- Adrian Bury, Francis Towne - Lone Star of Water-Colour Painting, Charles Skilton: London, 1962, p. 140
- Timothy Wilcox, Francis Towne, Tate Publishing: London, 1997, p. 38
Other entries in Studio Watercolours, 1770s
Francis Towne
Landscape with Resting Man, perhaps at Canon Teign
Landscape with Resting Man, perhaps at Canon Teign
Francis Towne
A View of the Arch in Peamore Park looking towards the House
A View of the Arch in Peamore Park looking towards the House
Francis Towne
A View coming from the Belvedere to Powderham Castle
A View coming from the Belvedere to Powderham Castle
Francis Towne
Torre Abbey, Devon, the Seat of George Cary, Esq.
Torre Abbey, Devon, the Seat of George Cary, Esq.
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Comment
This drawing is based on FT036. Towne has added two Italianate figures, who are looking out over the lower lake.