- Museum number
- 1981,0516.20.1-147
- Description
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Album quarter-bound in leather (re-backed) and red velvet-covered boards with gilt ruling and gold tooling, on the front velvet inlays and a replacement central label with 'SCRAP/Book' (also on the spine) and on the back a coronet with initials '[L.J].A.', enclosed in a green leather wrapper stamped 'REDLEAF.' on the front; blue silk moiré fixed and free endpapers; containing 55 leaves with 141 drawings (including one in the form of a cheque?, and cut-outs), 2 offsets from oil sketches, 3 transfer pen lithographs, one etched comic envelope with a Penny Black stamp, and a sheet inscribed with verse, on sheets laid down (a few drawn directly) onto the album leaves; mainly figure studies, hunting subjects (dogs, game, gamekeeper, sportsmen), portraits and landscapes; drawn on the recto and sometimes also on the verso; also 22 blank leaves; including portraits of J (or T) McDonald, G Paget, C Leslie, Queen Victoria, Sir Edwin Landseer, Charteris, WW (William Wells?), views of a tomb near Bhaugalpore (Bhagalpur) on the Ganges, Villa Borghese in Rome, the Escorial, a river in Renfrewshire, Seville, Oakley Park, Eastwell Park, also miscellaneous subjects including a still-life with fruit, playing cards, playing the piano, a female artist at work, a cottage interior, Scotsmen (including a Highlander), children, peasants, a picnic scene, a milking scene, and expeditions. 1825(?)-1846 (circa) Most drawings in pen and brown (occasionally black) ink usually with brown and/or grey wash; graphite; watercolour; pen and brown ink and watercolour, some with brown wash; brush drawing in brown ink with brown wash; many drawings over graphite, and/or touched with white, red chalk or bodycolour; one oil sketch; one drawing on a folded sheet (the inside fold blank); several on coloured or prepared paper; a few cut-outs
- Production date
- 1825-1846
- Dimensions
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Height: 370 millimetres
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Width: 276 millimetres (covers)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The album was assembled for William Wells of Redleaf, as in the case of 1980-5-16-19(1 to 163). It includes 3 transfer pen lithographs [1981-5-16-20 (18 to 20)] and the originals [1981-5-16-20 (21 to 23)], two offsets made from oil sketches on a palette [1981-5-16-20 (45 and 46)], a drawing described in the Register as 'apparently a cheque' (1981-5-16-51) and a comic envelope with a postage stamp (1981-5-16-124). One drawing has the registration number 1981-5-16-124*; a few drawings appear to have been removed from the album at some stage. The inscriptions on a few album leaves have not been recorded here (unless accompanying a drawing made directly on the album leaf) and are mainly attributions to artists. See the Register for a list of individual drawings and prints, and for the following identification of artists (by Lindsay Stainton).
Edwin Landseer: 3-16, 18(?), 20(?), 21(?), 23(?), 30, 41, 45-46, 51, 58, 68(?), 69(?), 85, 87-89, 98(?), 106-107, 109-114, 115(?), 116(?), 121, 129-133, 137, 146(?)
Landseer and Charteris: 71
Goodall: 17, 19, 22, 25(?), 26(?), 36, 56, 61-62, 65, 74(?), 75(?), 84(?), 94, 128
F.Goodall: 31-33, 42-44, 52
E.Goodall: 24
W.Derby (1786-1847): 34(?)
E.W.Cooke: 35, 77, 119
G.E.Boscowen: 49
Clarkson Stanfield: 50
Sir Francis Grant: 57, 79, 90
James Duffield Harding: 60(?)
1st Viscount Hardinge of Lahore (1785-1856): 91(?), 92(?)
J.R.Swinton (1816-1888/9): 96, 99, 100(?)
Lord Elcho: 118
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1981
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1981,0516.20.1-147
