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...
Description:
Elizabeth Susanna Davenport (1764-1844) was a writer known for her books written for children. She married lawyer Thomas Graham (1751-1814).
An album of sketches largely comprised of images drawn by a traveller in central and southern France in the late 1820s and early 1830s. The images, executed in a variety of media and styles, are mostly skillfully drawn landscapes, elevations of buildi...
Description:
In French and English, with some Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
France, England, France., and England.
Subject (Topic):
Grand tours (Education), Buildings, structures, etc, Drawing, British, Monuments & memorials, and Castles & palaces
Five sketches depicting from upper left: two elder women in profile, "A infant Jew. Peter" (a Jupiter-like figure holding a thunderbolt) with an eagle emering from the clouds, a caricature of a man with a look of consernatin in profile, outline of six...
Six sketches of heads, mostly men or small groups of men; one sketch of a couple, half-length. Only one caption, on caricature of a man in the middle on the right: "Hearing void of attention."
