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
Watercolor of the view from the east of Horace Walpole's home, Strawberry Hill in Twickenham, with two men pulling a lawn roller across the grass
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Another larger drawing of this view: Strawberry Hill chiefly taken in the year 1769 by Mr. Sandby. Cf. Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 769.00.0077dr++., Drawing that was later used as the basis of an engraving entitled "East front of Strawberry Hill" that appeared in the 1784 edition of: A description of the villa of Horace Walpole., and Paul Sandby (bap. 1731-1809), English artist and architect.
Subject (Geographic):
England, Twickenham., and Twickenham (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Estates, and Buildings, structures, etc
Title devised by curator, based on pencil annotation "Eaton-Socon" at bottom of mounting sheet., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date supplied by cataloger., and Mounted on page 78a in an extra-illustrated copy of: Lysons, D. Magna Britannia. London : T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813.
Subject (Geographic):
Eaton Socon (St. Neots, England)
Subject (Topic):
Buildings, structures, etc, Churches, and Cemeteries
Aylesford, Heneage Finch, Earl of, 1751-1812, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1806]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B935 805 folder 55 Box 5
Collection Title:
[Scrapbook of drawings].
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Ink drawing depicting part of a fallen tree in the foreground on the left; a castle sits atop a hill in the background on the right
Description:
Title from local catalog card., Signed by the artist in upper left corner., Date of production based on the death date of Richard Bull, who owned and likely assembled the album in which this drawing was found., Formerly laid in at page 205 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 to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.
Title from collective title on published state., Artist attributions from statements of responsibility on published state., Proof state of a plate published in: The lady's magazine, v. 3 (New Series) no. 12, December 1822. For a later state with collective title, captions etched under each image, and expanded statements of responsibility, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: Babb-Beckford no. 81., and Two images on one plate, with printmaker's signature etched below lower image.
Volume 1, page 125. Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
View of a large Gothic-style building in the middle distance, framed by trees and with low bushes in front. A groundskeeper and two cows seen on the lawn in front of the structure; a small boat is moored to the shore of the body of water in the foreground
Description:
Title devised by curator., Signed in lower left corner with the artist Thomas H. Shepherd's initials., Date of production based on the inclusion in the same volume of other drawings by Shepherd that depict the temporary building for the Strawberry Hill Sale of 1842., and Bound in as page 125 in volume 1 of Thomas Mackinlay's extra-illustrated copy of A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole.
Drawings B268 no. 1 Framed, shelved in Object Room B:C
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
A view of Hampton House (Garrick Villa) including Shakespeare's Temple in the distance and men with resting under a tree in the foreground, one walking with a fishing rod, and others walking in the distance on the other side of a pond