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Two trees - near Dulwich College

Maker

(artist)
1739-1816

Title

Date of Production

(13 August) 1812

Medium

graphite, pen and ink (grey), wash (grey) on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 11.2 cm
Width: 18.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4777

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; probably purchased from the latter as part of ‘two small sketchbooks and five small drawings late in date’ by Squire Gallery (London), 1945 (£50, for the sketchbook); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; 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

Literature

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. 57

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. FT734
ill.

Inscriptions

Inscription: Near Dulwich College an Hospital in Surrey / drawn on the Spot from 2 to 3 o Clock August 13h. 1812 / light from the left hand. Francis Towne //

Collector's mark: collector's mark of Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b)

Inscription: [...]HALL / [...]5 //

Inscription: Francis Towne / 1740-1816 / 4295 / ex coll. Merivale / Inscribed on reverse "Near Dulwich College / an Hospital in Surrey Drawn on the spot / from 2 to 3 o'clock Aug. 13th. 1812 / Light from the left hand. Francis Towne" / For Sir Robert Witt. II //

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