Watercolors (paintings) -- England -- 18th century
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
William Blake collection
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 914
Abstract:
The collection consists of documents, correspondence, and drawings by the English artist William Blake and his colleague John Linnell. Included are business and financial documents covering the relationship between Blake and Linnell, a letter from Blake to Linnell, two drawings by Blake, and a portrait of Blake by Linnell. The items were acquired by the library between 1941 and 1973.
Dates:
1780-1957, bulk 1780-1834
Album of watercolors and drawings.
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 831
Abstract:
The collection primarily consists of an album filled with drawings, prints, ephemera, and manuscript poems, letters, dedicatory inscriptions, and notes collected or created by John Charles Denham. The album contains 107 small drawings and sketches in graphite, ink, and watercolor by prominent British artists from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries such as Richard Parkes Bonington, John Flaxman, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Paul Sandby, J. M. W. Turner, and Benjamin West, as well as...
Dates:
1777-1935 1790-1835, bulk 1790-1835