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1. [Drawings of castles and scenes in England and Wales] [art original].
- Creator:
- DeWint, Peter, 1784-1849, artist
- Published / Created:
- [between 1829 and 1835]
- Call Number:
- 75 D521 829
- Image Count:
- 12
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A 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 Wales
- Alternative Title:
- Drawings by De Wint
- Description:
- Title 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., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and Wales
- Subject (Topic):
- Cathedrals, Dwellings, Estates, and Castles & palaces
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Drawings of castles and scenes in England and Wales] [art original].
2. [Sketchbook recording a tour in North Wales] [graphic].
- Creator:
- Graham, Elizabeth Susanna Davenport, 1762 or 1763-1844, artist
- Published / Created:
- August & Septr. 1790.
- Call Number:
- 75 G739 790
- Image Count:
- 44
- Abstract:
- An album containing drawings of castles, ruins, abbeys, landscapes, roads, and bridges drawn by the artist while on tour in northern Wales in August and September 1790, the year before her marriage. Most of the drawings are titled with names of places visited and are listed on the front flyleaf. On the verso of the fifth drawing, sometime after 1826, the artist has written a short piece entitled "Recollections" in which she compares travelling in Wales in 1790 to the last trip she took in 1826
- Description:
- Elizabeth Susanna Davenport (1764-1844) was a writer known for her books written for children. She married lawyer Thomas Graham (1751-1814)., Binding: Marble boards, half-leather, with wax seal and stamped with the initiials ESD [i.e. Elizabeth Susanna Davenport]., In the artist's hand on front pastedown: "This is for THF" [i.e. her son Thomas Henry Graham]., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Wales and Wales.
- Subject (Topic):
- Abbeys, Bridges, and Castles & palaces
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Sketchbook recording a tour in North Wales] [graphic].
