Lot 60: Francis Towne (Isleworth 1739-1816 London)

Francis Towne (Isleworth 1739-1816 London)
View of the cataract of the Mothvaye, Merionethshire, North Wales
signed, numbered and dated 'No. 14/F. Towne delt/1777' (lower left) and further signed, inscribed, dated and numbered 'No. 14/A View of the Cataract of the Mothvaye/in Merionethshire North Wales/drawn on the spot/by/Francis Towne/1777/London/Leicester Square/June 20th 1777' and further indistinctly inscribed 'Mawdach Rhaiadr Mawdach ...' (on the reverse of the original mount)
pencil, pen and black ink and watercolour, heightened with touches of bodycolour and with scratching out, on four joined sheets, watermark 'I VILLEDARY'
12 x 17 in. (31.8 x 43.2 cm.)

London, Lower Brook Street, 1805, no. 46 as 'Cataract of the Mothvay'. London, Agnew's, Exhibition of Selected Watercolour Drawings by Artists of the Early English School, Feburary - March 1922, no. 120, lent by Emily Buckingham.
Manchester, Agnew's, The 49th Exhibtion of Selected Watercolour Drawings by Artists of the Early English School In Aid of the Manchester Royal Infirmary, November - December 1922, no. 7.
Manchester, Agnew's, The Fiftieth Annual Exhibition of Selected Water Colour Drawings, November - December 1923, no. 22.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Special Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Prints and Drawings from New England Collections, June - September 1939, no. 632.
Yale, Yale University Art Gallery, Prospects: An Exhibition of English Landscape watercolors from English and American Private Collections, 1950, no. 60, lent from the Wayland Wells Williams Collection by Mrs Elizabeth Williams Garstin.
London, W/S Fine Art, Summer 2008, no. 9.
London, W/S Fine Art, Summer 2009, no. 9.

A. Bury, Lone Star of Watercolour Painting, London, 1962, p. 151.

Bequeathed by the artist in 1816 to James White of Exeter.
By bequest to John Herman Merivale, 1825 and by descent in the family to his grand daughter Emily Harriet Buckingham, 1915 and by decent to her sister France Ann Laura Solly, 1923.
with Agnew's, London, May 1936, from whom purchased by
Wayland Wells Williams, May 1936 and by descent to Mrs Elizabeth Williams Garstin, by 1950, and by descent to
Mrs Cynthia Garstin Blackwell by 1962; Christie's, London, 21 November 2007, lot 27.

Francis Towne (Isleworth 1739-1816 London)
View of the cataract of the Mothvaye, Merionethshire, North Wales
signed, numbered and dated 'No. 14/F. Towne delt/1777' (lower left) and further signed, inscribed, dated and numbered 'No. 14/A View of the Cataract of the Mothvaye/in Merionethshire North Wales/drawn on the spot/by/Francis Towne/1777/London/Leicester Square/June 20th 1777' and further indistinctly inscribed 'Mawdach Rhaiadr Mawdach ...' (on the reverse of the original mount)
pencil, pen and black ink and watercolour, heightened with touches of bodycolour and with scratching out, on four joined sheets, watermark 'I VILLEDARY'
12 x 17 in. (31.8 x 43.2 cm.)