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

Sketchbook of views, landscapes, ruins, castles…

Album of ca. 40 pen and ink, wash, and one color drawing of scenes in Yorkshire, most dated (30 April 1799-9 June 1801) and “drawn on the spot”, with the artist’s identification of the locales, buildings, and ruins. The first is dated April 30th 1799 and is a view of Fountain’s Abbey and followed by several sketches of ships and trees, a cottage, and two views of a bridge with a village in the distance. These sketches are followed by a series 24 non-sequentially numbered sketches, half of which are half-page oval designs. Six more drawings — wash, pencil, or ink — follow executed in 1801. The penultimate leaf contains a pencil drawing of The ruins of Wallop Church, dated Ap: 15th 1805 on the verso and a rough sketch of a scene on the verso. The final leaf is a wash drawing of a vista and is signed E. Johnson, JPearson, JPearson and is undated; another rough pencil drawing of trees and tower on the verso.

• Creator: Pearson, John, 1777-1813.
• Title: [Sketchbook of views, landscapes, ruins, castles, etc. in Yorkshire].
• Created:[Yorkshire, England], [between 1799 and 1805]

Catalog Record

Folio 75 P359 805

Acquired before 2002

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