[Drawings of castles and scenes in England and Wales] [art original].DeWint, Peter, 1784-1849, artist[between 1829 and 1835]engA series of eight, small watercolor drawings depicting castles and country houses in England and Wales. The views show: Brancepeth Castle near Durham; Enville Hall in Staffordshire; New Weir on the river Wye, Herefordshire; Hagley Hall, Worcestershire; Hereford Cathedral from across the river Wye; St Paul’s Walden Bury, Hertfordshire; Lumley Castle near Durham; and Chirk Castle near Wrexham, north WalesTitle devised by cataloger.Attributed to Peter DeWint.Date based on DeWint's visits to Wales between 1829 and 1835. See Oxford dictionary of national biography.Drawings are mounted an album of thirty-four unnumbered blank leaves; each drawing is captioned by the artist below in ink, some are numbered in pencil. Bound in nineteenth-century half black roan over marbled boards with the spine lettered in gilt ‘Drawings by De Wint’; marbled endpapers and edges; old bookseller’s description pasted at foot of first page.For further information, consult library staff.