A collection of 75 wash drawings and watercolor landscape drawings, mostly unidentified and unsigned. Later annotations attribute the drawings to Mason, Gilpin and Holland, and identify specific places in the British Isles: Mason's Arched Rock on the Isle of Wright, Bolton Abbey; Gilpin's Windermere Lake; Summer House Aston Rectory,Yorkshire. Possibly drawings executed for Gilpin's series "Observations, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, made in the year ..." or for his "Observations on the River Wye, and several parts of south Wales, &c." Also laid in is an engraving in blue ink on a paper doily etched with the title: Maths.Huelin & Ca. Malaga. Some drawings dated in pencil on mount, in a later hand, "1797".
Description:
Title assigned by cataloger. and Bound in three-quarters green morocco with marble boards and label on front cover stamped in gold tooling and gold lettering "Drawing"; with metal clasp.
Page 192. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title and statement of responsibility from contemporary annotation in pencil on verso., Mounted above on the same page is another drawing by the same artist: View of the lake and Temple of Esculapius in Villa Borghese, Rome, 1792., and Mounted on page 192 in a volume containing Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his Description of the villa of Horace Walpole (Hazen 2523) and his Catalogue of pictures and drawings in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry-Hill (Hazen 2619.4). Part of the collection: Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss Sebright, Miss Knight, Mrs. Damer, John Gooch, Samuel Lysons, Sir Edward Walpole, and Thomas Walpole (Hazen 3641).
An album of twenty watercolors recording the 1826 journey to England by the Delahaye family of Pierrefitte, France. A family friend, Gaudissard traveled with them from their home near Saint-Denis, carefully recording the sights they saw across the Channel. His drawings include landscapes, cityscapes, and various views, each inscribed with a caption. Scenes of London include a depiction of a typical city street, St. James's Palace from the Pall Mall, the interior of the Tower of London, and the interior of the Henry VII Chapel at Westminster Palace. He captured the countryside near Richmond, the seaside at Brighton and the Royal Pavilion there, Windsor Castle and a view of London as seen from Windsor, and Christopher Wren's Monument in London, as seen from Greenwich. Gaudissard shows his pictorial range with a night scene of Brighton and a depiction of a strenuous boat race on the Thames. Among other images are the Duke of Devonshire's menagerie at Chiswick House, only in existence between 1811 and 1836, featuring an elephant and a monkey, and an Anglican priest in the pulpit at Canterbury. Two drawings depict friends at Pierrefitte wave goodbye to the Delahaye carriage as it departs, and then welcoming the family with open arms upon their return home. The album's frontispiece features a classic coach-and-four alighting into the English mist, and at the end a record of the family's departure from Dover, its White Cliffs in the background, aboard an early steamship and Accompanied by a 16-page letter dated 1826, written in French, addressed by Madame L. Delahaye to her friend Alexandrine upon the Delahayes' return from England. The letter recounts the family's journey in great detail from start to finish, and includes several mentions of the lively participation of Gaudissard. Also present is a single leaf, written approximately 1850, describing the genesis of the album and brief biographical sketch of the artist
Alternative Title:
Souvenirs de l'Angleterre
Description:
The caricaturist Michel René Gaudissard (1774-1848) used the pseudonym Godissart de Cari (or G de Cari...). He was called the "French Hogarth" and "the greatest master of French caricature during the early 19th century" (Deberdt). He is principally known for his biting caricatures of the English and their odd habits, especially as seen in his collection of engravings Le Musée grotesque (1816-1820)., In French., Title gold stamped on front cover and from text in the first drawing entitled "Frontispiece.", Bound in contemporary brown sheep, gilt spine and gilt cover borders with title stamped on front: Souvenirs de l'Angleterre. With binder's ticket on inside front cover: Rue de Cléry, no. 7 pres celle Montmatre, Binant, Md. de Papiers, Fournitures de Burcaux de Paris., and For further information, consult library staff.
Burgess, Henry William, approximately 1792-1844, artist
Published / Created:
1817.
Call Number:
Folio 633 817 B955
Image Count:
15
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An album of seven pencil sketches, mounted with a neat ink borders. beginning with a title page, a view in a grove with trees and with two figures (one seated and pointing, the other with a portfolio under his arm) in conversation and a rock, the face of which is inscribed with the album title. The six drawings folllowing are romanticised topographical subjects including castles, gates, and ecclesiastical buildings, in ruins, enveloped in trees and foliage, from the vantage point of a river or allong the roadside
Alternative Title:
Six drawings by H.W. Burgess and 6 drawings by H.W. Burgess
Description:
William Henry Burgess (circa 1792-1844), landscape painter to William IV and the teacher of John Leech and Thackeray., In English., Title from title page drawing., Miss Bell unidentified., Bound in contemporary blue straight grain morocco, with decorated boards, upper cover lettered in gilt., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
England and England.
Subject (Topic):
Buildings, structures, etc, Drawing, British, Abbeys, Castles & palaces, and Religious facilities
A view of the Thames River with Richmond Hill in the distance. In the right foreground, a row boat pulls away from shore with a rower and his female passenger. A party of two women and a man are left on shore; behind them a man and woman talk over the fence that separates a grove of trees from the shoreline. Further down the river a boat sails away from the viewer
Alternative Title:
View of Richmond Hill from Twickenham
Description:
Title written in ink below image in Horace Walpole's hand., Strasburg lily watermark., and On verso, in Thomas Kirgate's hand: "H. Walpole". Also with a pressmark[?]: E895.
Subject (Geographic):
Richmond upon Thames (London, England) and Thames River (England)
View of the trees and field leading down to the Thames River. In the distance is Richmond Hill and Pope's home on the left, as seen from the terrace of Horace Walpole's villa, Strawberry Hill. In the foreground, a cowman sits against the nearest tree as two cows lay in the grass, a third cow stands nearby
Alternative Title:
View of Richmond-Hill, Twickenham, and Mr. Pope's house from the terrass at Strawberry Hill, 1772
Description:
Title, date and artist information written in ink below image, in an unidentified hand. and Inscribed by Horace Walpole on the verso: View of Richmond-hill, Twickenham, and Mr. Pope's house, from the terrass at Strawberry-hill, by Mr. Pars 1772.
Subject (Geographic):
England, Twickenham., and Twickenham (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744, Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Buildings, structures, etc, and Estates
A view of the Thames River with Richmond Hill in the distance as seen from the terrace of Lady Ferrars at Twickenham. In the foreground on the lawn a man leads a horse that has a rider on its back. On the river two men maneuver a punt boat on the left while on the right on the shore a man leads a team of three horses that pull a rope attached to a sail boat on the river
Alternative Title:
View of Richmond Hill, taken from the terrace of Lady Ferrars at Twickenham
Description:
Title, artist, and date written in ink on verso in Horace Walpole's hand., On verso in lower right corner, in Thomas Kirgate's hand: H. Walpole. Also pressmark[?]: "E.50.", and Partial visbile watermark: "C Blauw".
Subject (Geographic):
Richmond upon Thames (London, England) and Twickenham (London, England)
A view of the cottage from the garden at Strawberry Hill shows a worker pushing a wheelbarrow on the right with other workers in the distance on the left. In the distance, beyond the grove of trees the viewed sees the Thames and Richmond Hill in the distance
Alternative Title:
View of the cottage at Strawberry Hill from the west
Description:
Inscribed by Horace Walpole on verso with the artist's name, title, and date.
Subject (Geographic):
England and Twickenham.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Dwellings, Estates, and Outbuildings
Page 192. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
View of the lake and Temple of Aesculapius in Villa Borghese, Rome, 1792
Description:
Title and statement of responsibility from contemporary annotation in pencil on verso., Mounted below on the same page is another drawing by the same artist: Ideal landscape., and Mounted on page 192 in a volume containing Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his Description of the villa of Horace Walpole (Hazen 2523) and his Catalogue of pictures and drawings in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry-Hill (Hazen 2619.4). Part of the collection: Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss Sebright, Miss Knight, Mrs. Damer, John Gooch, Samuel Lysons, Sir Edward Walpole, and Thomas Walpole (Hazen 3641).
An album of pencil sketches of historic buildings and grounds in Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire, presumably executed during a tour, beginning in North Yorkshire, then South Yorkshire, and ending in Nottinghamshire. Most drawings are identified. Only one drawing is signed: "J. Haddow". The front flyleaf gives mileage between towns and villages beginning with Rotherham and continuing through Derbyshire and what is now Greater Manchester and finally to Ulverston (Lanscashire), perhaps a clue to the start and end of the trip; below this list is a sketch of a tree (orientation, reversed). The drawings, many over the two-page openings, include; three sketches of the ruins of Fountains Abbey, North Yorkshire; one sketch of parkland from Goldsborough Hall, North Yorkshire, followed by thirteen blank leaves; four sketches of Osberton Hall, Notinghamshire; three sketches of Tickhill Castle, South Yorkshire; twelve sketches of Sandbeck Park, South Yorkshire that include the ruins of Roche Abbey; and finally, a small sketch of the gate at Sandbeck Park on the back flyleaf (verso).
Description:
In English., Title devised by cataloger. Dated approximately., The album includes 42 leaves, approximately 13 of which are blank. Bound in the original light brown paper-covered boards, flat spine., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
Northamptonshire (England), Yorkshire (England), England., England, Nottinghamshire., and Yorkshire.
