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Drawings compiled by a member of the Mordaunt family
Author
Title
[Drawings compiled by a member of the Mordaunt family] [art original].
Production
[England], [between 1815 and 1829]
Physical Description
40 drawings in 1 album : watercolor, wash, pencil, pen and ink ; binding 23 cm
Notes
Title devised by cataloger.
Drawings are dated from 1815 to 1829 and laid on 29 leaves of various colored paper. Two undated watercolors are signed by Lady Marianne Mordaunt; two other illustrations are initialled S.C.E., possibly Susan Caroline Eliot who was born in 1801. The pencil portrait is signed "M.E. by Miss Masters, 1824." A pencil sketch of a ruin on a cliff is signed F.J. as are two other watercolors with another three unsigned views. Other drawings are signed C.E.W (1824 and 1828) or C.W. Another drawing is signed "M.H. 1829".
Signed and dated drawings include: the William Tell in the market place of Altdorf, Canton of Uri, Switzerland
Bound in original dark blue grained calf, initialled ‘T.[or C.]S.M.’ on front board, dated 1833 at foot of spine. Armorial bookplate initialled C.J., 1919, on front pastedown; later pencil book label of J.D. Derry, 1947, on first leaf.
Provenance
Purchased from Jarndyce, May 2024.
Biographical / Historical Note
Charles Mordaunt (1771-1823), 8th Baronet, was a member of Parliament representing the constituency of Warwickshire. A Catholic and Whig, he married Marianne, daughter of William Holbech of Farnborough Hall, Warwickshire in 1807; the couple lived at Walton where they raised one son and two daughters: John Mordaunt (1808-1845), Mary Mordaunt Acland (ca. 1811-ca. 1851), and Emma Acland (1813-).
Summary
An album of illustrations by various artists, probably compiled by a member of the Mordaunt family. The album contains views of coastlines and ports including Port Eliot, home of Mordaunt friends the Eliots of Port Eliot, in the Parish of St. Germans, Cornwall, drawings of ruins, rural scenes with livestock, and a pencil portrait of a girl aged about 10.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 30, 2024
Partial contents
[Portrait of Anne Boleyn] : from a picture in the possession of the Hon. R. Curzon at Rugeley in Staffordshire / The Thesion, Athens, May 1815; [Temple of Jupiter]; Marlborough Buildings and Royal Crescent, Bath; Hospice on the St. Gothard: / Sept 1823 S.C.E ; William Tell's Fountaint at Altorf / R.L.; Fontaine de Notre Dame à Einsiedeln; Zurich from Kusinacht [sic]; Harberton Vicarage; Port Eliot / W.W. 1825; Port Eliot.
References
Drawings Compiled by a Member of the Mordaunt family. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Drawings Compiled by a Member of the Mordaunt family. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Views.
Marine drawings.
Portrait drawings.
Landscape drawings.
Watercolors.
Wash drawings.
Pencil works.
Ink drawings.
Silhouettes.
Albums (books)
Armorial bookplates - Provenance.
Bookmark As
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