- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- Vale of the Dee below Llangollen
- Date
- 1788
- Medium
- Pencil, watercolour
- Dimensions
-
- image width 387mm,
- image length 540mm
- Mount
- mounted by the artist
- Inscription
-
- sheet, recto, lower left
- “F.Towne / 1788”
- Inscription
-
- artist's mount, verso
- “A View of the Vale of the Dee / North Wales drawn by / Francis Towne 1788”
- Object Type
- Watercolour
-
- Collection
-
- (PB7221)
- Versions
- The Vale of the Dee below Llangollen
- Catalogue Number
- FT551
- Description Sources
- Examination; Museum records (image)
Provenance
Commissioned by Lady Acland, wife of Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, Bt (1752–1794), and descended in his family until offered for sale by Sir Richard Thomas Dyke Acland, Bt (1906–1990), at Sotheby’s on 21 November 1968, lot 27 (bidding reached £900). It was acquired before 1997 by the present owner, the National Library of Wales (PB7221).
- Associated People & Organisations
- National Library of Wales, Aberwystwyth, 1997, PB7221
- Private Collection, 21 November 1968, GBP 900
- Sotheby's, London, London, 21 November 1968, lot 27
- Sir Richard Thomas Acland (1906 - 1990)
- Lady Henrietta Anne Acland (née Hoare) (1765 - 1841)
- Bibliography
- Paul Oppé, 'Francis Towne, Landscape Painter', The Walpole Society: London, 1920, pp. 122–23
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The Wrekin, on the Road between Much Wenlock and Shrewsbury
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A View going from the Head of Lake Como over Mount Splugen
A View going from the Head of Lake Como over Mount Splugen
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The Campagna near Rome looking towards the Sabine Mountains
The Campagna near Rome looking towards the Sabine Mountains
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A View of Loreto with Part of the Adriatic Sea
A View of Loreto with Part of the Adriatic Sea
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A View near the Arco Scuro Looking towards the Villa Medici
A View near the Arco Scuro Looking towards the Villa Medici
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An Evening View from Mount Palatine looking towards Mount Aventine
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A View on the Banks of the Tiber near Monte Milvio
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A View of the Temple of Venus looking towards the Island of Nisida
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Chateau de Glerolles, near Vevey on Lake Geneva
Chateau de Glerolles, near Vevey on Lake Geneva
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Abbey Valley Crucis, near Llangollen on the River Dee, North Wales
Abbey Valley Crucis, near Llangollen on the River Dee, North Wales
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A View on the Banks of the Dee above Llangollen
A View on the Banks of the Dee above Llangollen
Francis Towne
A View of the Bay of Naples with the Island of Capri
A View of the Bay of Naples with the Island of Capri
Footnotes
- 1 Paul Oppé records: notes, ca. 1915; Oppé 1920, p.123.
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Comment
This drawing is based on FT099. In his notes Oppé described this drawing as “the best of the series [but] much less effective than the BP sketch”. The 1920 article judged that it “has much of John Cozens’s sombre poetry, and is actually akin to him in the technique of the trees”.1