A Rocky Shore at Coombmartin, Devon (Combe Martin Bay)

1783

Francis Towne

Artist, British, 1739 - 1816

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and gray-brown ink and wash on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Donald Stone

  • 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


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