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Valley of the Teign looking over Newton Abbott (formerly 'Extensive landscape with a wooded valley')

Maker

(artist)
1739-1816

Title

Date of Production

(circa) 1778 - 1780

Medium

graphite, pen and grey ink and grey wash on laid paper, with a heavy vertical fold down the centre of the sheet and another horizontally 1/3 down from the upper edge

Dimensions

Height: 36.9 cm
Width: 58.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4064

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Provenance

bequeathed by the artist to James White, Exeter (1744-1825), on whose death it passed to the artist's residuary legatee, John Herman Merivale (1779-1844); by descent to his granddaughters Maria Sophia Merivale, Oxford (1853-1928) and Judith Ann Merivale, Oxford (1860-1945), May 1915; purchased from the latter's executors by Thomas Agnew & Sons (London), 12 April 1946; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), 18 January 1949 (£36.15s); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Three Exeter artists of the eighteenth century : Francis Hayman, Francis Towne, John White Abbott. Catalogue of loan exhibition by arrangement with the Arts Council of Great Britain, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, 08/05/1951-22/09/1951

76th annual exhibition of water-colour drawings, Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 1949

74th annual exhibition of water-colour drawings, Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 1947

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 52

Festival of Britain 1951. Loan Exhibition. Three Exeter Artists of the Eighteenth Century. Francis Hayman, R.A., Francis Towne, John White Abbott, Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery, Exeter, 1951
no. 59

Oppé, Paul, 'Francis Towne, Landscape Painter' in 'The Walpole Society', London 1920
p. 101 ...More

Stephens, Richard, A Catalogue Raisonné of The Works of Francis Towne, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, http://francistowne.ac.uk/collection/home
no. FT155
repr. ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: centre: Strasburg lily with a "P" in the upper lobe, above inverted "V" above monogram "VD" and "L", Countermarked with "I VILLEDARY" (same design though larger than Heawood 1848, London 1775. Oppé noted 4 other Devon views exhibit the same watermark).

Inscription: Verso: upper centre edge, brown ink, artist's hand: "Looking towards Newton / Painted a Picture for Thomas Taylor Esqr. of Denbury / 1780"; left of centre, graphite, the number circled, Paul Oppé's hand and his catalogue number: "179 B P" [Barton Place]; lower right corner, graphite, underlined: "4550".

Collector's mark: none.

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