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Add MS 89658/1
- Record Id:
- 040-004385301
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-004376150
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100170350573.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 89658/1
- Title:
- Volume of watercolour copies of paintings owned by Dawson Turner
- Scope & Content:
- Album of drawings titled ‘Watercolour Drawings copied from the Pictures in the Possession of Dawson Turner, Esq.’ (letterpress title page in black and red with traces of gilt).The album dates from 1828-1838 and includes 53 watercolours by three of the daughters of the banker, botanist, and antiquary, Dawson Turner (1775-1858), namely Hannah Sarah (1808-1883), Mary Anne (1797-1875) and Elizabeth Palgrave (1799-1852), together with two professional artists, Matthew Shepperson (1785-1874) and John Berney Crome (1794-1842). Each drawing is signed with the artist’s initials and inscribed with the work’s title, and the album contains a manuscript index which also includes the date executed by month and year.The drawings illustrate Turner’s collection of paintings by Dutch, Flemish, Italian and Norwich school artists. The artists listed are: Giovanni Bellini, Adriaen Brouwer, Pieter Breugel, Agostino Caracci, Annibale Caracci, Gaspar de Crayer, John Berney Crome, Aelbert Cuyp, Gerrit Dow, Fyl, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Guido Reni, De Fleem, Meindert Hobbema, Hans Holbein, Lang Jan, Pierre Mignard, Frederik de Moucheron, Juan Bautista Martinez del Mazo, Adam Pynacker, Thomas Phillips, Gaspard Poussin, Pierre-Paul Prud’hon, Peter Paul Rubens, Jan Steen, Francesco Solimena, David Teniers the Younger, Vecelli Titian, Adriaen Van Der Werff, Sir Anthony Vandyke, Leonardo da Vinci, Sir David Wilkie and Richard Wilson.Dawson Turner’s wife Mary (1774-1850) subsequently described the collection in the privately printed ‘Outlines in Lithography from a Small Collection of Pictures’, Yarmouth, 1840, which was accompanied by lithographs by the daughters after these watercolours.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-004376150
040-004385301 - Is part of:
- Add MS 89658 : Volume of watercolour copies of paintings owned by Dawson Turner
Add MS 89658/1 : Volume of watercolour copies of paintings owned by Dawson Turner - Hierarchy:
- 032-004376150[0001]/040-004385301
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 89658
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1828
- End Date:
- 1838
- Date Range:
- 1828-1838
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- Material: paper Dimensions: approximately 354 x 271 mm Foliation: Pages are foliated Binding: Bound with 19th century polished calf, sides richly tooled in blind and gilt with Dawson Turner's crest to centre of each cover, spine in five compartments with raised bands, titled on the spine, gilt edges. Preserved with original black leather portfolio, with clasp and catch.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)