Hampstead Heath, Evening Light
1800
Artist, British, 1739 - 1816

Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and black ink with gray and blue-gray wash over graphite on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 22.2 × 36.7 cm (8 3/4 × 14 7/16 in.)
mount: 28.4 × 42 cm (11 3/16 × 16 9/16 in.) -
Accession
2022.40.36
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Catalogue Raisonné
Stephens Online Catalogue, no. FT 621
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Bequeathed by the artist to James White, Exeter [1744 - 1825]; John Herman Merivale [1779 - 1844]; by descent; in 1915, by descent to Maria Sophia Merivale [1852 - 1928] and Judith Ann Merivale, Oxford [1860 - 1945]; (sold in November 1933 to Squire Gallery, London); Sir John Braithwaite, London [1884 - 1973]; by descent; (sale, Sotheby's London, 7 June 2006, no. 360, bought in); Donald Stone, New York [1942 - 2020]; bequest to NGA, 2022.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2023
Drawing in Britain, 1700 - 1900: New Additions to the Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2023.
Bibliography
n.d.
Stephens, Richard A Catalogue Raisonné of Francis Towne. Accessed 3/72022, no. FT/621 http://francistowne.ac.uk/collection/list-of-works/hampstead
Inscriptions
lower left verso in pen and ink: Hampstead Heath evening light from / the right hand 1800 F Towne; by later hand, center verso in graphite: 241 BP / 22 x 16 / [undeciphered] green