A perspective view of Dilston Hall

“View of hall with gardens and river in foreground, crossed by bridge at right with a courting couple; other figures in foreground including fishermen in centre foreground, a woman with child sitting at right and gardeners at left; poem in three columns lamenting the death of the Earl below.”–British Museum online catalogue.

• Printmaker: Spilsbury, Jonathan, approximately 1737-1812, printmaker.
  
• Title: A perspective view of Dilston Hall, once the seat of the unfortunate James, Earl of Derwent-water [graphic] / T. Oliver delin. ; Spilsbury sculp., Russel Court, London.
  
• Publication: [London] : [publisher not identified], … published according to act of Parliament, July 17, 1766.

Catalog Record 

Topos N878 no. 2++

Acquired September 2017

Vue perspective du Couvent Garden

A perspective view, or vues d’optique, of the Covent Garden Market, looking towards Inigo Jones’s St. Paul’s Church, which is situated slightly to the right of center; in the foreground are shown vendors, carriages, pedestrians and other street life. The image is reversed for viewing through the lens of a Zograscope and designed to give the illusion of a deeper perspective, enhanced by the deep vanishing point and bright colour of the print.

• Title: Vue perspective du Couvent Garden [graphic].
  
• Publication: A Paris : Chez J. Chereau Rue St. Jacques au desses de la Fontaine St. Severin aux a Colonnes No. 257, [ca. 1790]

Catalog Record

790.00.00.89+

Acquired November 2017

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

The west prospect of St. Martin’s Church in the Fields, Westminster

“View of the west front of the church, a graveyard to the right; in sky a scroll with a dedication to Browne Willis Esq; a flag flying from the top of the tower.”–British Museum online catalogue.

• Printmaker: Vertue, George, 1684-1756, printmaker.
  
• Title: The west prospect of St. Martin’s Church in the Fields, Westminster [graphic].
  
• Publication: [London : publisher not identified], 1744]

Catalog Record & Digital Collection

Topos L847 no. 148+

Acquired May 2016

[Album of amateur prints by Charlton Wollaston…]

An album of amateur etchings, mostly by Charlton Wollaston and The Hon. Booth Grey, and a few pen and grey wash landscape sketches and portraits. Many of the etchings are represented by multiple impressions and variant states, and on various paper stocks. Also mounted in the album is a copy of a bust of a man by Miss Clarke, from College-Green Worcester and dated 1789. Some later prints, mounted on 19th century photolithographs. The etchings represent country scenes — thatched cottages, peasants, farms and farm animals, and peasants at work — as well as views of churches, villages, ruins, and landscapes with row boats and skiffs on rivers. Also included are several engravings and prints from published works on various topics including a large engraving of Greek sculptural elements pasted on the inside of the back cover.

• Title: [Album of amateur prints by Charlton Wollaston, Booth Grey, and others, with some drawings].
• Executed: [England, between 1754 and 1789?]

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Acquired September, 2011 by the Lewis Walpole Library.