[Sketchbook recording a tour in central and southern France, with a few British views] [art original].

Copyright Date:

1827-1841.

Physical Description:

36 drawings in 1 album : pencil, pen, wash, and watercolor ; binding 14 x 22 cm

Related Links:

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/digcoll/lwlpr38110

Notes:

Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, October 2019.
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.

Abstract:

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').

Topics:

Castles & palaces--England
Drawing, British--19th century.
Grand tours (Education)--http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00002558
Monuments & memorials--France

Topics:

England--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works.
France--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works.
France--Pictorial works.--http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115106

Caption:

Cover

Language:

English
French
Latin

Genre:

Graphite drawings.
Ink drawings.
Landscape drawings.
Pencil works.
Sketchbooks.
Travel sketches.
Views.
Wash drawings.
Watercolors.

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Paintings & Drawings

Rights:

These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html

Call Number:

82 827Sk

Orbis Record:

14623414

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr38110(parent)

oid pointer:

16895228

Citation:

Sketchbook Recording a Tour in Central and Southern France, with a Few British Views. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.

OID:

16895227

PID:

digcoll:4855833

Number of Pages: 52