Volume 1, page 2. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Country view with a church at center, its grounds enclosed by a fence with a gate. A tree is seen in the foreground on the right; smaller bushes surround the church on the left. A windmill and a small building sit atop a hill in the distance
Description:
Title and date from local card catalog record., Attribution to Bunbury based on inclusion of the drawing in a volume of the artist's work., and Mounted with eleven other drawings on page 2 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
An album of amateur drawings, with scenes in Kent, East Sussex, Hertfordshire and Surrey. The artist, only identified with the initials 'S.G.L.', provides titles and dates for the majority of the drawings. The first group (thirteen in all) dated 1828 are views in Kent, Sussex, and Hertfordshire, including Leeds Castle, Hythe, Sandgate, Rye, Pevensey Castle, Tunbridge Wells, St. Albans, and Hatfield. The second, larger group of drawings are scenes in and round the village of Bletchingley (sometimes Bletchingly) in Surrey, depicting village life -- for example, the 'Church Yard', 'Parsonage', 'Farm Yard', landscapes with farm houses, country lanes, bridges, and people fishing, andc. -- and include both people and animals. Other views of places in the vicinity are scenes in Nutfield, London Road, Bletchingley from London Road, Rabbit Heath, et cetera All the drawings in or around Bletchingley (thirty-nine in total) are dated between August 14th and October 14th 1829. Several of the drawings are on blue paper and are highlighted with white chalk, conveying a nocturnal quality to the scene. A final group of ten undated, untitled drawings also depict rural scenes, presumably in southeastern England
Alternative Title:
Bletchingley S.G.L. 1828-1829
Description:
In English., Title from contemporary manuscript note on front cover., Album bound in three-quarter leather with marbled-paper boards, with the title written in black ink on front board: Bletchingly S.G.L. 1828 1829. Also with a dark-green morocco spine label gilt-stamped: S.G.L. Bletchingley 1828-29. On front pastedown: a label manuscript note "Laura" scored through and then "Alice" written above., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
Bletchingley (England), East Sussex (England), Kent (England), Hertfordshire (England), Surrey (England), England, Surrey., and England.
Subject (Topic):
Country lif, Bridges, Castles & palaces, Fishing, City & town life, and Villages
An album of watercolors assembled by the gentleman farmer and amateur artist John Tomes showing views of his manor house Weston Sands House and the surrounding countryside. Tomes recorded his estate from many angles and in all seasons as well as picturesque spots in the neighbouring countryside, including several views of the River Avon which bordered his estate. Also included are a series of watercolors taken on a trip to the Isle of Wight. There is also a view of Windsor Castle (?) across the Thames and many watercolors of medieval ruins, abbeys, and castles. Tomes also copied a number of Turner prints from the ‘Liber Studiorum’ (published 1807-1819) and his ‘Picturesque views on the Southern Coast’ (published 1814-1826).
Alternative Title:
Sketches by John Tomes, Weston Sands
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger, based on dealer's description., All but two of the drawings are pasted on the rectos of the album leaves; some have pencil manuscript notes giving the location of the subject; some of the first watercolors mounted on the first pages of the album are dated '1818'., Bound in contemporary rust-colored hard grain half morocco and marbled sides, with gilt lettered morocco label 'Sketches by John Tomes - Weston Sands' to front cover, white moirés silk pastedown., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
Warwickshire (England) and Isle of Wight (England)
Subject (Name):
Turner, J. M. W. 1775-1851 (Joseph Mallord William), and Windsor Castle,
Subject (Topic):
Influence, Castles & palaces, Abbeys, Ruins, Estates, and Rivers
An album of illustrations by various artists, probably compiled by a member of the Mordaunt family. The album contains views of coastlines and ports including Port Eliot, home of Mordaunt friends the Eliots of Port Eliot, in the Parish of St. Germans, Cornwall, drawings of ruins, rural scenes with livestock, and a pencil portrait of a girl aged about 10.
Description:
Charles Mordaunt (1771-1823), 8th Baronet, was a member of Parliament representing the constituency of Warwickshire. A Catholic and Whig, he married Marianne, daughter of William Holbech of Farnborough Hall, Warwickshire in 1807; the couple lived at Walton where they raised one son and two daughters: John Mordaunt (1808-1845), Mary Mordaunt Acland (ca. 1811-ca. 1851), and Emma Acland (1813-)., Title devised by cataloger., Drawings are dated from 1815 to 1829 and laid on 29 leaves of various colored paper. Two undated watercolors are signed by Lady Marianne Mordaunt; two other illustrations are initialled S.C.E., possibly Susan Caroline Eliot who was born in 1801. The pencil portrait is signed "M.E. by Miss Masters, 1824." A pencil sketch of a ruin on a cliff is signed F.J. as are two other watercolors with another three unsigned views. Other drawings are signed C.E.W (1824 and 1828) or C.W. Another drawing is signed "M.H. 1829"., Signed and dated drawings include: the William Tell in the market place of Altdorf, Canton of Uri, Switzerland, and Bound in original dark blue grained calf, initialled ‘T.[or C.]S.M.’ on front board, dated 1833 at foot of spine. Armorial bookplate initialled C.J., 1919, on front pastedown; later pencil book label of J.D. Derry, 1947, on first leaf.
Watercolor of the view from the east of Horace Walpole's home, Strawberry Hill in Twickenham, with two men pulling a lawn roller across the grass
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Another larger drawing of this view: Strawberry Hill chiefly taken in the year 1769 by Mr. Sandby. Cf. Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 769.00.0077dr++., Drawing that was later used as the basis of an engraving entitled "East front of Strawberry Hill" that appeared in the 1784 edition of: A description of the villa of Horace Walpole., and Paul Sandby (bap. 1731-1809), English artist and architect.
Subject (Geographic):
England, Twickenham., and Twickenham (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Estates, and Buildings, structures, etc
Volume 1, opposite title page. Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Statement of responsibility written in ink below image, on mounting sheet., Date of production based on Ottley's time at Winchester College, which ended by 1787 when he entered the Royal Academy Schools; see Oxford Dictionary of national biography, entry for William Young Ottley., and Mounted opposite title page in volume 1 of Horace Walpole's collection of amateur works entitled: A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Page 185. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date based on death date of Horace Walpole, who assembled the collection in which this drawing is found., Mounted below on the same page is a watercolor drawing of nearly the same scene., and Mounted on page 185 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).
Page 185. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date based on death date of Horace Walpole, who assembled the collection in which this drawing is found., Mounted above on the same page is a pen and ink drawing of nearly the same scene., and Mounted on page 185 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).
Title devised by curator., Artist and date from Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink on verso., Formerly mounted on the upper half of leaf 6, with another view in Jersey, in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760]., and Attributed to Bentley and dated by Horace Walpole on verso.
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date supplied by cataloger, based on the date assigned to the scrapbook in which the drawing is found., and Mounted on leaf 42 in volume 1 of Anne Damer's Scrapbooks.
