A Rocky Shore at Coombmartin, Devon (Combe Martin Bay)
1783
Artist, British, 1739 - 1816

Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and gray-brown ink and wash on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
Overall: 24.5 x 34.8 cm (9 5/8 x 13 11/16 in.)
mat: 40.6 x 55.9 cm (16 x 22 in.) -
Accession
2001.135.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Bequeathed by the artist to James White, Exeter [1744-1825] in 1816; John Herman Merivale [1779-1844] in 1825; to his granddaughters Maria Sophia Merivale [1853-1928] and Judith Ann Merivale [1860-1945], Oxford, in 1915; sold in 1933 by Judith Ann Merivale to (H. B. Milling, Squire Gallery, London); (Fine Art Society, London); Joseph de Carle Smith, Norwich, 14 May 1937. (sale, Phillips, 21 November 1988); (Agnew's, London); Donald Stone, New York; gift to NGA, 2001.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1926
Annual Water Colour Exhibition 1926, The Judge's Lodgings, Winchester, December 1926 - January 1927, no. 123.
1934
Squire Gallery Summer Exhibition of Early English Watercolours and Drawings, Squire Gallery, London, 1934, no. 1.
1936
An Exhibition of Early English Water-Colour Drawings, Fine Art Society, London, 1936, no. 28.
1937
Exhibition of Early English Water-Colour Drawings, Fine Art Society, London, 1937, no. 48.
1989
English Watercolours and Drawings: Agnew's 116th Annual Exhibition, Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 1989, no. 19.
1992
English Watercolours and Drawings: Agnew's 119th Annual Exhibition, Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 1992, no. 15.
1993
English Watercolours and Drawings: Agnew's 120th Annual Exhibition, Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 1993, no. 16.
2006
The Artist's Vision: Romantic Traditions in Great Britain, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007
Inscriptions
by later hand, upper left verso in graphite: DB 2877 / F. TOWNE; by artist, upper left verso in brown ink: Coombmartin / August the 26th 1783 / Francis Towne / Bay north west & south east; by Paul Oppé, center verso in graphite: 189 B.P; by later hand, lower right in graphite: NO / (not deciphered) / NO 3 francis / 2218
Wikidata ID
Q64562919