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.
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 buildings, and people in local costume, with captions in French (with some English), many of which show scenes in the Bagnères-de-Bigorre (September-October 1828) in southwestern France as well as scenes in Pau (1827), Saint-Étienne (1828), Peyrehorade (1828), Nimes (1828), Bayonne (June 1828), Toulouse (May 1829), Montpellier (June 1829), Bordeaux (August 1830), and Royan (1831). The picturesque views include: a shepherd on stilts ('berger des Landes'); a couple on a cacolet at Bayonne; a rear view of a farmer sitting on a wall; a view of a chateau near Toulouse silhouetted against the red night sky, and another of the Tour des Pins at Montpellier glowing in the dark. Several drawings demonstrate an interest in architecture and antiquities: there are detailed, very skilled architectural drawings of the Thermes de Marie Thérèse at Bagnères-de-Bigorre, and Latin inscriptions copied from Roman monuments. Landscape drawings include a tall chestnut tree at the convent of Notre-Dame de Médoux and Narcissa's tomb at Montpellier (with a quote from Young's Night Thoughts). The album also includes five British scenes by another artist: the Tower of Refuge, Isle of Man; Netley Castle in Hampshire England; Carisbrooke Castle, Isle of Wight; the ancient well at Wavertree and Prince Rupert's headquarters, Everton, both near Liverpool (these last two signed 'Alex Aikin').
Description:
In French and English, with some Latin., Title devised by cataloger., Artist unidentified, but is plausibly English; the sketch of Narcissa's tomb at Montpellier has a quote in English from Young's "Night Thoughts"., On different colored papers, with a table of contents, a few leaves previously removed; red glazed paper over pulp boards, green glazed endpapers., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
France, England, France., and England.
Subject (Topic):
Grand tours (Education), Buildings, structures, etc, Drawing, British, Monuments & memorials, and Castles & palaces
Page 203. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Statement of responsibility written in ink along right edge of sheet., Date of production inferred from other drawings in the album by the same artist, all of which are dated 1776., and Tipped in as page 203 in a volume containing Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his Description of the villa of Horace Walpole (Hazen 2523) and his Catalogue of pictures and drawings in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry-Hill (Hazen 2619.4). Part of the collection: Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss Sebright, Miss Knight, Mrs. Damer, John Gooch, Samuel Lysons, Sir Edward Walpole, and Thomas Walpole (Hazen 3641).
End flyleaf. Miscellanies historical and phililogical.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Attributed to Horace Walpole in local card catalog record., Date of production based on Horace Walpole's death date., and Drawn on end flyleaf in Horace Walpole's copy of Miscellanies historical and phililogical.
Title devised by curator., Devised title and artist attribution based on Horace Walpole's notes on facing leaf: This book belonged to Mr. Pope, and the drawing is by him. Horace Walpole, 1766. It is a view of Twickenham Church from his own garden., Date of production based on artist's death date., and Drawn on front flyleaf in volume 1 of Alexander Pope's copy of: Homeri opera quae extant omnia. Amstelaedami : Ex officina Wetsteniana, MDCCVII [1707].
Page 196. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Statement of responsibility and date written in ink on verso, in a contemporary hand. This annotation is written over a design in pencil and wash, presumably part of a larger drawing which is now mostly trimmed away., and Mounted on page 196 in a volume containing Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his Description of the villa of Horace Walpole (Hazen 2523) and his Catalogue of pictures and drawings in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry-Hill (Hazen 2619.4). Part of the collection: Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss Sebright, Miss Knight, Mrs. Damer, John Gooch, Samuel Lysons, Sir Edward Walpole, and Thomas Walpole (Hazen 3641).
Title from curator. and This record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Volume 1, page 35. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Date supplied by cataloger., Beneath image is the ink annotation "Two heads of Archbp. Juxon", which refers to this drawing and another portrait drawing mounted on the same page., Laid down on an ink line mount., and Mounted on page 35 in a volume of ca. 50 drawings that was assembled from works purchased by Horace Walpole at the Vertue sale of 1757. Now bound in red morocco, this volume has Walpole's manuscript title-page: Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others.
Volume 1, page 35. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Signed "R.W. f." in lower left corner; artist with the intials "R.W." is unidentified., Date supplied by cataloger., With a faint and mostly illegible pencil annotation below image, which includes the name "Juxon" and the date "1633"., Another portrait drawing is mounted on the same page, beneath which is the ink annotation: Two heads of Archbp. Juxon., and Mounted on page 35 in a volume of ca. 50 drawings that was assembled from works purchased by Horace Walpole at the Vertue sale of 1757. Now bound in red morocco, this volume has Walpole's manuscript title-page: Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others.
Page 190. Collectanea Cantabrigiensia, or collections relating to Cambridge, university, town, and
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Full-length depiction of a woman facing right, kneeling on a cushion with hands pressed together in prayer, a book open on a stand in front of her
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date of production based on publication date of the volume in which the drawing is found., With note in pencil below image: North isle of Chipenham Chapel, painted [?], no inscript[ion?]., Tipped in at page 190 in an extra-illustrated copy of Francis Blomefield's Collectanea Cantabrigiensia, or collections relating to Cambridge, university, town, and county ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Women in literature and art.
