Asset number
1611066001
Description
Album containing 58 small drawings; miscellaneous daily-life subjects and figure studies completed between 1772 and 1827. Watercolour and pen and ink. 1. A Farmyard. A farmer and a milkmaid watching ducks and pigs feeding. No inscription. 2. A Thames-side wharf. Boats being loaded with barrels at a wharf. No inscription. 3. The Landlady. An old bachelor by his fireside turning to talk to the landlady. No inscription. 4. Angling. A man baiting his hook on the bank of a pond, with a girl on one side and a dog on the other; a house in a garden beyond. Inscribed below, “Summer house on Croom’s Hill, to the right. of Greenwich Park. Cf. Sketch in a similar album ex coll. Gilbertson, and now belonging to Major Dent.” 5. “The Beauty and the Beast.” A hideous-looking man offering 2 huge money-bags to a scornful beauty. Inscribed with title. 6. “Peace and Plenty.” A soldier and sailor, home from the wars, each with a wooden leg, drinking punch with a woman who sits between them on their knees. Inscribed with title. 7. At Chislehurst. A tradesman meeting a girl with flowers in her hand in front of the gate of a park which a man in a cloak is entering. Inscribed with a quotation from a guide book, “Chislehurst, a village near Bromley, etc.” 8. The Faro table. A group of gamblers round a hazard table. No inscription. 9. Asking the way. A young man with a bundle on his shoulder asking his way of a woman riding home; a windmill on a hill beyond. No inscription. 10.The Ship’s carpenter. A naval officer giving directions to a carpenter who is working on the bows of a ship in dock. No inscription. 11. Illustration to an Eastern story. A man whipping another man whom he has harnessed to a grinding-mill. No inscription. 12. “Farewell old fumbler.” A sailor and a woman carrying a chest and a bag of money, kicked out of a house by a stout old gentleman with a candle in his hand. Inscribed with title. 13. The Glutton. A plethoric bald-headed glutton eating and drinking. Inscribed at top with title, “Such whose sole Bliss is eating, who can give but that one Brutal Reason why they live. Congreve.” 14. Portrait study. Head of a man in three-quarter face looking l. No inscription. 15. On a balcony. A lady and gentleman drinking wine together on a balcony. No inscription. 16. Study of a preacher, with face and hands uplifted. No inscription. 17. Portrait study. Half-length of a man sitting at a table and smiling. No inscription. 18. Head of a divine. Profile head looking l, wearing a skull cap. No inscription. 19. The Barber. A barber pouring a stream of lather over his customer’s face. No inscription. 20. South Sea Islanders, one with a fishing net, another with a pole on his shoulder, by the sea shore. No inscription. 21. A Rustic encounter. A man and woman meeting near a stile at the entrance to a wood. No inscription. 22. “Last Scene of all.” Head of an old man in the last stage of decrepitude, watched by a buxom nurse. In-scribed with quotations from the Psalms, “The Days of our age are threescore and ten”, etc., and from Shakespeare, “Last scene of All that ends this strange eventful history”, etc. 23. Masqueraders. A man and woman. No inscription. 24. The Visit of Dr. Syntax to the Widow Hopefull at York. Dr Syntax at supper with the widow, who holds a guitar; Squire Hearty peeping from behind a screen. Inscribed below, “Nothing is so intoler-able as a rich Woman”. Etched by the artist for “ The Second Tour of Dr. Syntax”. 25. “The Old have Interest ever in their eye.” Study of an old man’s and old woman’s heads, side by side. Inscribed with above title. 26. Going
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