Watercolour drawings
MS. WHF Talbot 72
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Watercolour drawings
Shelfmark
MS. WHF Talbot 72
Summary
Comprises:
watercolour 'Phytolaccca Lecandera', inscribed 'gathered amongst the ruins of ancient Etruscan Amphitheatre at Fiesole', 5 Aug 1822
watercolour 'Anemone Hortensis', inscribed 'gathered near the Grotto of Egeria', 4 Mar 1823
watercolour of drooping plant with red berries [by Lady Elisabeth Feilding?], n.d.
watercolour of flower with exposed bulb, inscribed 'flowers drawn by Lady Elisabeth Feilding', n.d.
watercolour with washes of landscape depicting classical ruins to right, two women foreground. Monogrammed 'E', n.d.
watercolour with washes landscape depicting arched bridge, classical building, valley beyond. Monogrammed 'E', n.d.
watercolour, with washes, a landscape with a castle to the right of a body of water and mountains behind, painted prior to 1804 and monogrammed 'E.T.'
pen and ink with washes, inscribed 'from a Gold Cup at Melbury, by Benvenuto Cellini'. Titled and inscribed 'E.T.F. del.' in ink, replacing an earlier pencil inscription (glue spots on verso – removed from an earlier mount), n.d.
Date
1822-1823, n.d.
Language
English
Physical extent
1 box
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Collection contents
Archive of William Henry Fox Talbot and the Talbot family
Papers of Lady Elisabeth Feilding
Drawings and artwork
Watercolour drawings
