Sketchbook chronicling a tour along the Rhine by an English traveler and draughtsman

Album of 20 leaves (of which 3 are double leaves) of pencil, sepia and black ink sketches, some with wash, of Rhine landscape and town views, as well as 2 colour wash sketches, and a few pencil sketches (one with wash), most captioned in manuscript. The sketchbook records a journey along the Rhine where the draughtsman sketched a number of romantic vedute and vistas.

• Creator: Lysons, Daniel, 1762-1834, artist.
  
• Title: [Sketchbook chronicling a tour along the Rhine by an English traveler and draughtsman].
  
• Published: [Germany and Belgium], [1823 and 1824]

Catalog Record

75 L995 823

Acquired September 2017

Spiritual advice

The more finished of the two wash drawing on recto shows a drunken tradesman (perhaps sailor or dustman) holding onto a post. Above him is written by the artist, “Niccup who are ye staring at. Take a little sober advice and go home for you seem to be beastly intosticated [sic].” On the verso, a graphite drawing of a baker(?). On the verso a pencil sketch of the same tradesman, unfinished.

• Creator: Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, artist.
• Title: Spiritual advice [drawing].
• Created: [England, between 1830 and 1852?]

Catalog Record & Digital Collection

Drawings G761 no. 4 Box 123

Acquired November 2013

Sin ie cure

A full-length caricature of an obese clergy man who wears a bishop’s hat (?) and smokes a long pipe as he walks left. He carries a pig and a chicken under his left arm. He holds a Bible in his left hand, and he carries a bottle in his pocket. He has a very large nose and a round checks. His very large belly is exaggerated further in graphite.

• Creator: Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, artist.
• Title: Sin ie cure [drawing].
• Created: [England, between 1830 and 1852]

Catalog Record & Digital Collection

Drawings G761 no. 2 Box 123

Acquired November 2013

The striking likeness

An artist (left) with a caricatured face looks on with horror as a bust falls on the head of the Lord, the sitter, who jumps and shrieks with pain, his foot breaking the window (right). In the background the Lord’s round, well-dressed wife looks on in horror. Sketch on verso in pencil shows a boxer with gloves in a fighting stance. The figures in ink on recto, the artist and his lordship, bleed-through the image on verso.

• Creator:Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, artist.
• Title:The striking likeness [drawing] / C.J. Grant.
• Created:[London, between 1830 and 1852?]

Catalog Record & Digital Collection

Drawings G761 no. 1 Box123

Acquired November 2013

Sketchbook recording a tour in North Wales

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 are listed on the front fly leaf. On the verso of the fifth drawing, sometime after 1826, the artist has written a short piece entitled “Recollections” in which she compares traveling in Wales in 1790 to the last trip she took in 1826.

• Artist: Graham, Elizabeth Susanna Davenport, 1762 or 3-1844.
• Title: [Sketchbook containing pen and wash views recording a tour in North Wales].
• Created: North Wales : August & Septr. 1790.

Catalog Record

Acquired January 2012