Sketchbooks of views in North Wales and Westmorland

PXB 536

fonds

approximately 1811-1815

Graphic Materials, Drawings, Watercolours

940415

2 sketchbooks (180 drawings) - sketchbook (21.5 x 14.0 cm or smaller) - pencil, watercolour, and ink

Acquired by donors from the Allport family

Collection comprises two sketchbooks of views in Wales and Westmorland, ca. 1811-1815. The pencil, watercolour, and ink drawings include views of the Lake District in north-west England; views in North Wales including the Snowdonia region; rural views; and sketches of animals, buildings, towns, and villages, possibly done during a sketching tour.

PXB 536/no. 1
Includes sketches of Abergele[?]; probably Carnarvon [i.e. Caernarfon] Castle; Rhuddlan; and Kynmael Park or Kinmael Park [i.e. Kinmel Park].
The back pages of sketchbook contain a list of names and amounts.

PXB 536/no. 2
Includes sketches of Milnthorpe; Kendal; Pooley Bridge; Patterdale; Ulswater; Gobarrow [i.e. Gowbarrow] Park; Patterdale Church; Ambleside; Ambleside Mill; Grasmere; Waterfalls at Sir M. le Flemings [probably waterfalls at Rydal Hall, Ambleside]; Castle Carag, St Johns Vale; Elter Walter [i.e. Elterwater]; Langdale; Lowood [i.e. Low Wood?]; Langdale Pikes; Windermere; Keswick; Furness[?] Abbey; Dalton; Coniston; Coniston Water; Derwent Water; Penrith; and Kendal Castle.
Sketches made in 1815 include views of Corwen; Rhydlan fair [i.e. Rhydlanfair?]; on the Conway [i.e. Conwy]; Snowdon from Capel Cerig – day group[?]; and Ulswater.

Drawings in PXB 536/no. 2 are numbered by artist.

Out of copyright:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Some drawings in sketchbooks titled by artist

PXB 536/no. 1
Front end page of sketchbook inscribed in ink ‘H. C. Allport / begun – July 8th 1811 / No (9 is crossed out) 10 North / Wales / with father mother / sister & Mifs[?] [i.e. Miss] E. W. / 1811’. 'Age 23' inscribed in pencil by an unknown hand.

PXB 536/no. 2
Front end page inscribed in pencil ‘Westmorland’ and in ink 'No. 13 [crossed out in ink and pencil] 1814 - W. Glover / No 14 – also 1815 N. Wales / with Wm. Glover’ and ‘H. C. Allport / Aldridge / near Lichfield / Staffordshire / begun June 23rd 1814’.

Date taken from sketchbooks

Sketchbooks contain loose pages and some pages have previously been removed