Inscription: Written in ink on album page; 'Glenridding, Ullswater'. Monochrome watercolour painting of a country house that is on the banks of Lake Ullswater; there is a colonnade around one section of the building and a tower to the left.
Talbot Collection: Scrapbook containing pencil and wash drawings, presumably belonging to Lady Elisabeth and containing artwork by herself and other members of the family.
Scope & Content:
Bound scrapbook album with brown leather trim, marbled paper cover and gold embossing along the spine, measuring 272 x 3800 x 25 mm. The album consists of 58 watercolour paintings and pencil sketches. On inside endpaper, in the top left corner, a label is pasted with the inscription 'Sold by/ ...
Inscription: Printed above and below the engraving; 'European Magazine./ Malcom Sculp:/ Mackworth Castle./ Publish'd by J. Sewell 33 Cornhill Jany 1st; 1793'. An engraving showing the crenelated gatehouse with a smaller thatched building to the right; a horse-drawn cart, heavily laden with hay,...
[Pencil Drawing titled] On the road to Bergtalzgarten in Bavaria.
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Inscription: Written in ink on album page; 'On the road to Bergtalzgarten in Bavaria'. A pencil drawing, sketched from the side of an alpine road, showing a wooden footbridge in the foreground and Mount Watzann in the distance to the left.
Inscription: Written in ink on album page and on top left corner of drawing; 'Huy sur la Meuse'. Pencil sketch drawn from the banks of the River Meuse with the citadel atop the hill at far right and the town at centre.
Inscription: Written in ink on album page; 'Ulm'. and in pencil in top right corner of drawing; 'Ulm on the Danube'. Pencil drawing of a bridge that crosses over the River Danube and connects to a gatehouse; the town of Ulm is on the opposite bank.
[Pencil Drawing titled] La Tour des Souris - sur le Rhin.
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Inscription: Handwritten on drawing and album page; ' La Tour des Souris - sur le Rhin'. Pencil drawing of the small island with its tower ruins that is located in the centre of the Rhine.
Inscription: Handwritten on the drawing and album page; 'Augsbourg'. A pencil drawing of the upper section of an hexagonal tower that rises above some tree tops.
Inscription: Handwritten on the drawing and album page; 'Near Munich'. A pencil drawing of a church and graveyard surrounded by a stone wall; the bell tower, which is to the right of the nave, has an onion dome.
Inscription: Handwritten on the drawing and album page; 'Oberwesel on the Rhine. A pencil drawing of two circular towers, one large and one small, on the banks of the River Rhine with their reflections visible in the water.