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print; drawing; photographic print; album

Object Type: print; drawing; photographic print; album
Museum number: 2016,7052.1.1-271
Description: An album of landscapes and architectural views; contains mostly British and Continental scenery with Indian and South American landscapes as well as some historical, biblical and allegorical scenes and portraits; 257 prints, 13 drawings, 1 photograph; front cover of the album missing, loose spine titled with gold tooling "Scrap Book"
Producer name: Print made by: Frederick James Havell; Print made by: B Winkles; Print made by: J Woods; Print made by: William T Woolnoth; Print made by: Francis William (Frank) Topham; Print made by: W French; Print made by: Henry Griffiths; Print made by: John Havell; Print made by: James Baylis Allen; Print made by: John Brain; Print made by: Robert William Wallis; Print made by: James Posselwhite; Print made by: J Radclyffe; Print made by: M J Starling; Print made by: Samuel Lacey; Print made by: W Backshell; Print made by: William Richard Smith; Print made by: Joseph Wilson Lowry; Print made by: John Pye, the younger; Print made by: Nargeol; Print made by: Friedrich Wagner; Print made by: Thomas Lupton; Print made by: Kronheim & Co; Print made by: Miss J Hawksworth; Print made by: William Bernard Cooke; Print made by: Alfred Robert Freebairn; Print made by: William Le Petit; After: William Havell; After: R Garland; After: Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz); After: F Hilliard; After: Domenichino; After: William Henry Bartlett; After: Sir David Wilkie; After: Samuel Austin; After: Claude Lorrain; After: Frederick James Havell; After: Rembrandt; After: William Daniell; After: Mrs James Robertson; After: Thomas Allom; After: Antonio Canaletto; After: Joseph Mallord William Turner; After: Anthony van Dyck; After: Henry Howard; After: William Delamotte; After: Thomas Churchyard; After: S Clarke; Intermediary draughtsman: Thomas Scandrett; After: Sir William Gell; After: William Wyon; Drawn by: Charles Joseph Hullmandel
Materials
Technique: engraving; lithograph; drawn; cliché-verre
Dimensions: Height: 365 millimetres (album); Width: 275 millimetres (album)
Curator's comments: Compiled by the Havell family, the album contains mostly British and Continental landscapes and architectural views; some views in India and South America; some orientalist views; historical, biblical, and allegorical scenes; some portraits; in the back 7 tracings of Chinese figures representing various social groups and presumably ceremonial scenes; a photograph of an aloe plant pasted inside the back cover. Most engravings produced by Frederick James Havell (1801-1840/41), or after paintings by his older brother William Havell (1782-1857); reproductive prints by FJ Havell after paintings by Domenichino, David Wilkie, Claude Lorrain, Rembrandt, Durer. A number of prints by other printmakers including Benjamin Winkles’s “Continental Cathedrals”. Also some lithographs and some works titled in graphite. Works appear to follow no apparent order and many do not bear the name of the engraver.
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: Joyce Havell; Previous owner/ex-collection: L Havell
Acquisition date: 2016
Acquisition notes: Presented to the British Museum in 2016 by Felicity Owen who received it from Miss Joyce Havell circa 1980; previously by family descent from Miss L Havell, who may have compiled the album, to Miss J Havell. The front page of the album is inscribed: “lost page inscribed/ Miss L Havell/ formerly the property/ Miss Joyce Havell/ who gave it to me/ c. 1980/ Felicity Owen / (2016/ 3 small watercolours/ were extracted).”
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 2016,7052.1.1-271
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