Views of natives, landscapes, and ethnographic objects of the Northwest Coast of America, Pacific Islands, China, and South America. Half of the drawings are fully rendered watercolors, others are rough sketches with detailed notes on coloring, dates of anchorages, and occasionally events on board ship or shore. Ten watercolors are of Native Americans of the Northwest Coast, eight of them signed by Bacstrom and fully executed after his return. There are ten views of the Northwest Coast of America, including Nootka Sound and Queen Charlotte's Island, and Native American villages at Norfolk Sound and Fitzhugh Sound. There are two maps of Queen Charlotte's Island, six watercolors of canoes from the Northwest Coast and the Pacific Islands, and four drawings of Native American and Pacific island ethnographic objects and There are eighteen watercolor sketches and drawings of the coast of South America and the islands in the Pacific, including Hawaii and Staaten Island near Cape Horn. Other drawings include ten watercolors of Chinese men and women, a pencil drawing of a Chinese junk, and a watercolor of an American tea plant. The drawings are accompanied by a highly finished watercolor of the Greenland Whale Fishery not made during the voyage, and a manuscript catalog of "some accurate and characteristic original drawings" made on the voyage with prices; not all of the drawings listed correspond to drawings present in the collection
Description:
Bacstrom, a protégé of Sir Joseph Banks, served as surgeon on a private fur-trading ship which sailed around Cape Horn to the South Seas, Nootka Sound, the East Indies, and the Cape. Bacstrom left the ship at Nootka Sound and later served as surgeon on several ships, visiting China, India, the Cape, and the Americas., Accompanied by a container list., Manuscript captions., and View a digital version in the Beinecke Library's Digital Images Online database
Subject (Geographic):
Northwest, Pacific, Hawaii, China, Islands of the Pacific, Queen Charlotte Islands (B.C.), South America, and Greenland
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Social life and customs, Clothing and dress, and Whaling
Artist unknown; formerly attributed to John Chessell Buckler. and Acquired with John Chessel Buckler's watercolor entitled: House no. 11 on the east side of Berkeley Square ... Cf. Lewis Walpole Library 827.00.00.58dr.
Autograph narrative, extensively illustrated by Mrs. Kenah, of two journeys in Europe taken by the Kenah couple with friends in 1821-24 and in 1827-29. On the first tour, accompanied by Walter Burrell, MP for Sussex, and "Mrs. Crutchley of Sunning Hill Park....and a Blenheim spaniel," the Kenahs traveled through France, Switzerland, Italy, and Bavaria; they were present in Naples for the 1822 eruption of Mount Vesuvius, and spent time in Rome and Lucca as well. In the later tour, they visited the Low Countries, Germany, and Trieste. The text is clearly drawn from diaries kept by Mrs. Kenah during the tours, and contains her often humorous responses, as an "Inexperienced Traveller," to tourist sights, local customs and manners, "foreign" food, and travel difficulties, Mrs. Kenah describes herself as "a woman in quest of the Picturesque," and over 80 of her watercolors and pen and ink sketches are mounted in her travel album. Subjects include "Eruption of Vesuvius, October 22, 1822 as it appeared at midday;" several portraits of Lucchese, Swiss and German figures in local costume; a portrait of Tommaso Sgricci, the famous improvvisatore; a memorial Mass in Caudenberg; the "table d'hote" at the Baths of Ems; the Salon at the Palazzo Ricasoli in 1824; and a variety of "picturesque" landscapes, including a view of the Bay of Naples, of a canal in Venice, and of several castles and mountain scenes in Germany. Also included are several printed views of German scenes which have been hand-colored, and In addition, there are watercolors of English subjects at the end of the volume: cottage scenes, rural landscapes, "view of Box Hill," "Grimsthorpe, 1826," and "Dunkeld from Dr. Fisher's garden. Sept. 9 1826."
Description:
Spine title reads: "Journal. Vol. I.", Annotated on front endpaper: "Mary Leigh Best, 1878.", and Binding: Contemporary calf, red gilt morocco spine label, gilt decoration.
Subject (Geographic):
Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, France, Lucca (Italy), Naples (Italy), and Vesuvius (Italy)
Ethnic costume, Grand tours (Education), Landscape drawing, Travelers' writings, English, Views, Women authors, Women travelers, Description and travel, Social life and customs, and Eruption, 1822
Sketchbook containing 37 watercolors done by Ellis Cornelia Knight while on board Lord Nelson's flagship the Foudroyant with Sir William and Lady Emma Hamilton in 1800. Twenty-six sketches are views taken from the ship off the coast of Sicily, under sail to Malta, and returning from Malta to Palermo. There are also sketches taken in Palermo prior to sailing, and on excursions from the ship near Syracuse. Sketch 2, for example, shows the villa of Prince Ventimiglieri in Palermo; sketch 19 shows an excursion party rowing near Syracuse. There is an index at the back of the volume
Description:
Ellis Cornelia Knight (1757-1837), writer, governess and protégé of Lady Emma Hamilton, whom she broke with after Lady Hamilton's affair with Lord Nelson became public knowledge in England. Knight's works include Dinarbas: A Tale (1790) and Sir Guy de Lusignan (1833)., In English., Inscribed on verso of flyleaf by Knight: "This book was commenced at Palermo in Sicily, 1800. Finished at Windsor, 1806.", and Binding: contemporary full calf; gilt decoration.
A scene from Horace Walpole's Gothic novel The castle of Otranto, with the vision of Alphonso looming large over the courtyard of the castle, the other characters in the foreground either bowing down or looking up in astonishment. The form of Alphonso, dressed in full armor, floats in front of a crumbling section of the castle. The moon occupies the cloud-filled sky above; an angelic figure is visible within a break in the clouds at the top of the image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist not identified., Date of production supplied by curator., and Mounted opposite page 239 in an extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. The castle of Otranto. Parma : Printed by Bodoni, for J. Edwards, London, MDCCXCI [1791].
An architectural drawing depicting the cross-section of a house with the most detail being lent to mantels, doorways, and a staircase featuring an ornamental bannister
Description:
Title and date supplied by cataloger.
Subject (Topic):
Chimneypieces, Mantels, Doors & doorways, and Stairways
Watercolor drawing depicting a green caterpillar at top, a pupa in the middle, and a gold-colored moth at bottom
Description:
Title from local catalog card., Attributed to Alexander Marshal based on association with a similar drawing labelled "Marshall" in manuscript. For other drawings by Marshal of moths and caterpillars, see: Collection 941. Alexander Marshal Insect Watercolors. Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia., Place and date of production based on the artist's country of residence and death date., Small remnant on verso of a trimmed manuscript annotation in the artist's hand., Formerly laid in with three other drawings at page 51 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806]., Matted together with three other drawings to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.
Watercolor drawing depicting a green caterpillar at top, a pupa in the middle, and a gold-colored moth at bottom
Description:
Title from local catalog card., Attributed to Alexander Marshal based on association with a similar drawing labelled "Marshall" in manuscript. For other drawings by Marshal of moths and caterpillars, see: Collection 941. Alexander Marshal Insect Watercolors. Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia., Place and date of production based on the artist's country of residence and death date., Small remnant on verso of a trimmed manuscript annotation in the artist's hand., Formerly laid in with three other drawings at page 51 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806]., Matted together with three other drawings to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.
Pencil, pen and ink, pen and wash, and watercolor illustrations in a sketchbook, unsigned, by an unidentified artist of Ontario and Québec, Canada, circa 1808. Depicted are Newfoundland, “carrioles [sic] (carriages) of lower Canada”, “sledge of lower Canada”, “calash (carriage) of lower Canada”, Montmorency Falls on the Montmorency River, Church of Saint Ann, Saint Helen’s Island, “a pipe tomahak [sic]”, the home of Sir Jon Johnson, Fort Chambly, Chaudière Falls on the Ottawa River, the church and mills at Terrebonne, a canoe, Fort Saint Joseph, a dwelling house of the North West Company, Lake Huron, Fort William (a fur trading post of the North West Company), Lake Erie, the mountains near Lake Champlain, and Quebec City. Four illustrations are of unidentified individuals; one illustration is of three unidentified Indigenous people. Inscribed on the front endpaper: “Begun at Quebec, the 9th March 1808”.
Description:
Manuscript captions in English., Title devised by cataloger., and Place of creation and date supplied by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
Canada, Champlain, Lake, Erie, Lake, Fort Chambly (Chambly, Québec), Fort Saint Joseph National Historic Site (Ont.), Thunder Bay (Ont.), Huron, Lake (Mich. and Ont.), Montmorency River (Québec), Newfoundland and Labrador, Old Fort William (Thunder Bay, Ont.), Ontario, Ottawa River (Québec and Ont.), Québec (Québec), and Sainte-Hélène Island (Québec)
A miniature of the Lady Anne Clifford. Formerly hung in the Tribune [Cabinet] at Strawberry Hill
Alternative Title:
Lady Anne Clifford
Description:
Title devised by curator., Inscribed on verso by Horace Walpole: Lady Anne Clifford., Signed by the artist with monogram in lower left., Rectangular blackened pearwood frame., and Text from the 1842 Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: A miniature of the Lady Anne Clifford, daughter and heiress to George Earl of Cumberland, first married to Richard Earl of Dorset, and afterwards to Philip Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery. She was governess to King Charles the First's children, and wrote the memoirs of her own life, a clever picture, by Dixon. Purchased from the collection of Lady Isabella Scott, daughter to the Duchess of Monmouth.
