[Sketchbook recording a tour in North Wales] [graphic].

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Title: [Sketchbook recording a tour in North Wales] [graphic].
Creator: Graham, Elizabeth Susanna Davenport, 1762 or 1763-1844, artist
Published / Created: August & Septr. 1790.
Publication Place: North Wales
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].
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Provenance: Purchased from Samuel Gedge, 2012.
Extent: 38 drawings in 1 sketchbook : 24 cm
Language: English

Genre: Pictorial works
Amateur works
Graphite drawings
Wash drawings
Ink drawings
Landscapes drawings
Views
Drawings (visual works)
Sketchbooks
Material: pencil, pen and wash over graphite ;
Subject (Geographic): Wales
Wales.
Subject (Topic): Abbeys
Bridges
Castles & palaces
Subjects: Wales > Pictorial works
Abbeys > Wales
Bridges > Wales
Castles & palaces > Wales

Access: Public
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Citation: Elizabeth Graham, Sketchbook Contaning Pen and Wash Views Recording a Tour in North Wales. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.