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Cockerell, C. R. (Charles Robert), 1788-1863. C. R. Cockerell architectural drawings and notes, 1816-ca. 1835.

Title: C. R. Cockerell architectural drawings and notes, 1816-ca. 1835.

Cockerell's extra-illustrated set of "Vitruvius Britannicus" (5 v., 1715-1771) with twenty-seven drawings and eighteen prints tipped in.

ArchivalResource: 5 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145989629 View

Smirke, Robert, 1752-1845. Robert Smirke letter unidentified recipient, 1791.

Title: Robert Smirke letter unidentified recipient, 1791.

ArchivalResource: 1 sheet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/750153603 View

Album of watercolors and drawings., 1777-1935, 1790-1835

Title: Album of watercolors and drawings. 1777-1935 1790-1835

The collection primarily consists of an album filled with drawings, prints, ephemera, and manuscript poems, letters, dedicatory inscriptions, and notes collected or created by John Charles Denham. The album contains 107 small drawings and sketches in graphite, ink, and watercolor by prominent British artists from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries such as Richard Parkes Bonington, John Flaxman, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Paul Sandby, J. M. W. Turner, and Benjamin West, as well as Denham's cohort in the Society of Young Painters: François Louis Thomas Francia, Thomas Girtin, Sir Robert Ker Porter, and Augustus Wall Callcott. Many of the drawings are signed but most are undated, and appear to have been added to the book between the early 1830s and the mid-1850s. Several bear small paper tags with references to unidentified "Old 'Water Colour' Society" volumes and folios. Among the drawings are portrait sketches of James Boswell, Maria Cosway, William Cowper, John Charles Denham, and Sarah Siddons, as well as the title character of Henry Mackenzie's novel Julia de Roubigné. The artist most prominently represented in the album is Sir Thomas Lawrence, with fifteen drawings, one etching, two letters, and a signature clipped from an unidentified document; the most prominent family represented is the painter/author Sir Robert Ker Porter and his sisters, the novelists Jane and Anna Maria Porter. Also present are watercolor landscapes by the wife and daughter of portrait painter Thomas Phillips and three members of the Batty family, and several drawings by Denham's young stepson Henry Thomas Hamilton (d.1813). Two drawings in the album have historically been attributed to Thomas Gainsborough and one to John Hamilton Mortimer.

ArchivalResource: 0.42 linear feet (1 box)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.denham View

Smirke, Robert, 1752-1845. Regatta at Keswick in Cumberland [title inscribed in ink] [graphic] / Painted by Mr Smirke [within image, lower left]; RUB [?].

Title: Regatta at Keswick in Cumberland [title inscribed in ink] [graphic] / Painted by Mr Smirke [within image, lower left]; RUB [?]. 1788?

Mock battle with gang of men storming a house on the banks of a river, stealing plates of meat and barrels, guns and cannon fired in the centre, men lying in the foreground, women watching from behind a wall at left, others with a child and cleric beside tree at right, boats on the water and figures lining the opposite bank, smoke filling the centre, mountains in background. See Keswick and Its Neighbourhood, 1852, p.22 for a description of the drawing this print is based on, held at 'Crosthwaite's museum'. This states that several 'worthies of the place' are recognisable in the crowd. The British Museum hold an impression of this print published by J. Harris in 1788, the impression at Maps K.Top.10.20.c is cut below the production line.

ArchivalResource: 1 art print: hand-coloured etching ; image 374 x 542 mm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/498305898 View

Houghton Library printed book provenance file, R-Z and unidentified

Title: Houghton Library printed book provenance file, R-Z and unidentified

Index to ownership/provenance information primarily from printed books at Houghton Library.

ArchivalResource:

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01543/catalog View

Thompson, John, 1785-1866. Letters received, 1825-1851.

Title: Letters received, 1825-1851.

Mostly single letters to Thompson (and to his partner J. van Voorst), from painters, illustrators, and architects, primarily relating to the reproduction of their work. Letters refer to the examination of proofs, the delivery of drawings for reproduction, subjects for illustrations commissioned, and occasionally other professional matters. Of particular interest are single letters of Edmund Sharpe on engraving techniques, Charles Joseph Hubbell on his claims to the invention of lithotint, and John Pye on a case before the Artists' Benevolent Fund. Other letters of some content include those of Robert Smirke, E. H. Corbould, William Simson, David Roberts' collaborator William Brockedon, Thomas Sidney Cooper, John Calcott Horsley, Richard Redgrave, Edwin Landseer, and the engraver William Harvey. With two letters of Thompson to his children, 1849, on social matters.

ArchivalResource: ca. 50 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83912768 View

Papers, 1808-1888.

Title: Papers, 1808-1888.

Diaries and correspondence of English historical painter Benjamin Robert Haydon.

ArchivalResource: 35 v. and 2 boxes (5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00516/catalog View

Smirke, Robert, 1752-1845. Robert Smirke papers, 1804-1840.

Title: Robert Smirke papers, 1804-1840.

Collection contains five letters by Smirke, one from 1804 regarding drawings sent for the Lords of the Treasury, and one from 1840 enclosing a 4 pp. essay comparing Raphael and Poussin. With a print of an engraved portrait of Smirke and a printed biographical item.

ArchivalResource: 8 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84215057 View

Jones, George, 1786-1869. Correspondence, ca. 1831-1885.

Title: Correspondence, ca. 1831-1885.

Collection includes 5 letters by Jones, ca. 1833-1868, and 13 letters received from British painters, ca. 1831-1864, together with 4 letters received by his wife Gertrude, ca. 1870-1885 (also from British painters), a letter from Gertrude to her mother, n.d., on the verso of a letter Jones received from William Etty, and a letter from Alfred Edward Chalon to a Miss Loscombe, 1860, pertaining to Jones.

ArchivalResource: 23 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78589538 View

Smirke, Robert, 1752-1845. [Vignette to Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'] [graphic] / Robert Smirke R.A.

Title: [Vignette to Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'] [graphic] / Robert Smirke R.A. [around 1797].

A cherub holding a portrait medallion of William and Mary; below a female figure reaches up towards him with arms outstretched, another figure (envy?) turning away behind, with a bat and a grotesque creature beside; a fleet of ships on sea in background. Signed by artist lower left. John Platt, the collection's compiler, has written "Original Drawing by ROBERT SMIRKE R.A. Engraved in Bowyer's 'England'" and "Protestantism welcoming William and Mary. Roman Catholicism fleeing. Dutch fleet in the distance" on the mount in ink.

ArchivalResource: 1 drawing : pencil and watercolour ; sheet 322 x 222 mm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/500345688 View

William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : original artwork, 1785-1916

Title: William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : original artwork 1785-1916

The William A. Speck Collection of Goetheana: Original Artwork is an artificial collection comprising original artwork that came to Yale from various sources, mostly during the Speck Collection's early decades. It includes some of the Collection's best-known holdings, including an anonymous silhouette made of Goethe in 1786 as well as original sketches and engravings by Goethe. Other artists represented include Wilhelm von Kaulbach, Georg Melchior Kraus, Johann Heinrich Lips, and Moritz Retzsch.

ArchivalResource: 1.0 linear foot (3 boxes)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.speckartwork View

Fowler, Laurence Hall, 1876-1971. Laurence Hall Fowler autograph collection 1613-1925.

Title: Laurence Hall Fowler autograph collection 1613-1925.

The collection consists of approximately 50 letters written between 1613 and 1925 by famous architects, primarily English. Architects represented include Robert Adam, Henry Bacon, Charles Barry (father and son), William Chambers, Thomas Hastings, Frederick Law Olmsted, William Thornton, A.W.N Pugin, Sir John Soane and George Edmund Street.

ArchivalResource: 1 document box (0.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49310927 View