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Landscape with stream and footbridge, Holly Street, Chagford

Maker

(artist)
1739-1816

Title

Date of Production

28 August 1815

Medium

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

Dimensions

Height: 14 cm
Width: 23.3 cm

Accession Number

D.1976.XX.14

Mode of Acquisition

Rhoda Welsford, bequest, 1976

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; given by them to their cousin, Mary Ann Loveband (b. 1865); purchased from her by Thomas Agnew & Sons (London), 17 May 1938 (£60); purchased there by Miss Rhoda Welsford, London (1894-1975), 4 March 1939 (£10.10s); Welsford Bequest 1976

Literature

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. FT765
ill.

Inscriptions

Inscription: No 1 / Holley Street Chagford / Francis Towne August 28th 1815 / from 5 to 6 in the afternoon //

Inscription: 2687

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