[Charlotte Boyle's drawings for The old English baron] [art original].

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Title: [Charlotte Boyle's drawings for The old English baron] [art original].
Creator: Boyle-Walsingham, Charlotte, 1769-1831, artist
Published / Created: [1789]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: A group of amateur watercolor drawings that illustrate various scenes from Clara Reeve's Gothic novel The old English baron. The drawings are inserted throughout the printed text of the fourth edition, bound in near the scenes that are depicted. Although untitled, the drawings have been assigned titles that derive from the text
Description: Collection title devised by cataloger.
Each drawing is signed 'C. Boyle' and most are dated with the month, day, and year of production. The artist is probably Charlotte Boyle-Walsingham (1769-1831), who married Lord Henry Fitzgerald in 1791; she legally changed her name to Charlotte FitzGerald-de Ros in 1806, after successfully petitioning to end the abeyance to the Barony of de Ros and becoming 20th Baroness de Ros of Helmsley.
Bound in a copy of: Reeve, C. The old English baron: a Gothic story. London : Printed for Charles Dilly, in the Poultry, MDCCLXXXIX [1789].
Lacking the two published plates.
Bound in vellum with gilt edges and tooling and with pink silk endpapers.
Extra-illustrated with eight watercolor drawings on vellum, produced by Charlotte Boye in 1789 (these drawings are cataloged separately).
Autograph (Fitz-Gerald?) scratched out on page iii.
In red case.
Provenance: Olivia Cecilia Fitz-Gerald de Roos, written on first flyleaf in ink, with Mrs. A. West written below in a different hand. Arthur Rogers; March 1956,
Extent: 8 drawings : sheets 18 x 10 cm
Language: English