View Between the Quay Gate and West Gate Outside the City Walls, Exeter by Francis Towne

View Between the Quay Gate and West Gate Outside the City Walls, Exeter by Francis Towne, 1791

© Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery

Details

Medium:

Pen & brown ink & watercolour

Dimensions:

20 x 31 cm

Art Fund grant:

£5,300 ( Total: £21,760)

Acquired in:

2002

Vendor:

Sotheby's

The group of mills formed the very centre of the Devon woollen industry. The gates in this watercolour were taken down in 1819 to cope with the increase in traffic.