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Creator:
Townshend, Harriet Frances, -1880
Title(s):
Harriet Francis Townshend sketchbook, 1820-1825.
Physical Description:
1 volume (approximately 51 drawings) : graphite ; 15 x 22 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
DA730.T69 H37 1820
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Full Orbis Record:
http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/11358097
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Notes:
The volume bears Townshend's signature, dated 1820, on front endpapers, as well as her note bequeathing the volume to "my dear niece Charlotte Massie at my death," who in turn bequeaths it to her niece Eliza Anne Buchanan at her death in 1868. The verso of the front fly-leaf includes a note in graphite, in a 19th century hand (by Mrs W. Buchanan), recording the "final" bequest in this volume's family history.
Bound in original blind-tooled black roan.
Depicts Welsh landscape and coastal views and rural scenery. There are six sepia wash drawings, and 45 graphite drawings, with some additional sketches on the rear end-paper and paste-down.
Subject Terms:
Townshend, Harriet Frances, -1880.
Wales -- Pictorial works.
Waterfronts.
Form/Genre:
Graphite drawings.
Wash drawings.
Landscape drawings.
Travel sketches.
Sketchbooks.
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  • In graphite: Tuvallyn Mill
  • Tuvallyn Bridge
  • Tuvallyn from Mr Cowper's Orchard
  • Tuvallyn Hall
  • Wincham (7), including one of the canal
  • Gresford
  • Lymm (2)
  • Bryn y Ffynnon
  • Efenechtyd Church
  • Efenechtyd
  • School House Marford
  • Cefyn-y
  • Rossett
  • Flint Castle
  • Denbigh Castle
  • Country House with figure in woods in the foreground
  • Dolhyfryd from the Boat House
  • Seacombe (2)
  • Ferry House, Seacombe
  • Douglas, Isle-of-Man
  • Douglas, Isle-of-Man, Light House
  • View of Liverpool from Mrs Rothwell's Gardens
  • From Stone Bridge
  • town and castle (2)
  • rural house
  • wooded valley
  • village scene with cart and figures (2)
  • ruined gravestone
  • rural cottages (6)
  • horse and cart.
  • In sepia wash: Water mill
  • Denbigh Castle
  • Country House
  • Douglas, Isle-of Man. Fine view of the port.
  • Castle, Isle-of-Man
  • Peel Castle, Isle-of-Man.

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