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Rydal Cragg, Loffrigg

Francis Towne
1740?-1816

Rydal Cragg, Loffrigg

1786
6 1/8 x 18 1/2 inches (156 x 469 mm)
Pen and brown ink, watercolor, over some graphite, on two sheets of paper pasted together vertically.
1974.70

Purchased as the gift of Viscount Astor.

Notes
Watermark: none.
This drawing comes from the dismembered sketchbook of Towne's 1786 tour in the Lake District with his friends John Merivale and James White. Another sheet from the sketchbook is at the Yale Center for British Art.
The sketchbook was once owned by Judith Ann Merivale (1860-1945) of Oxford, who was the daughter of Towne's residuary legatee, J. H. Merivale.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed by the artist variously on verso: at top in pen and brown ink, "No 7"; in pen and brown ink over graphite, "B Rydal Cragg or[?]"; in graphite, "Loffrigg".
Associated names
Merivale, John Herman, 1779-1844, former owner.
Merivale, Judith Ann, 1860-1945, former owner.
Milling, H. B., d. 1954, former owner.
Spooner, William, Mrs., former owner.
Somerville, Stephen, former owner.
Astor, William Waldorf, 1951- donor.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Seventeenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972-1974. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1976, p. 183.
Adrian Bury, Francis Towne, London, 1962, 149.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department