Found 31 collections related to Watercolors (paintings)

Bayard Taylor (1825-1878) was an American poet, literary critic, translator, and travel writer. His papers consist chiefly of letters and travel essays written to the New York Tribune between October 1856 and December 1857 while on his extensive trip to Northern Europe. These letters were republished in 1857 under the title Northern Travel: Summer and Winter Pictures. Also present is correspondence regarding speaking engagements, social matters, a trip to Africa, and the writing and publishing of his work; canceled checks; a detailed "specification for repairing main home at the county seat Cedarcroft of Bayard Taylor, Esq. at Kinnet Square, PA;" an annotated copy of "The Obsequies in Rome;" and a manuscript copy with watercolor illustration of a portion of "Duke Ernst of Saxe-Coburg." less

Edward Maisel (b. 1917) was the author of Charles T. Griffes: The Life of an American Composer. The Edward Maisel research files on Charles T. Griffes, dating from 1904 to 1985, primarily hold correspondence between Maisel and individuals who knew or worked with Griffes. They also hold copies or transcriptions of letters from Griffes, book notes, diaries, and photographs. less

Robert Gerringer (1926-1989) and his wife Patricia Falkenhain (1927-2004) were American stage, television, and film actors. They performed together in regional, Broadway, and Off-Broadway theater. The collection (1930-1990) documents their stage acting careers through scripts, scrapbooks, photographs, and writings. Gerringer's drawings and watercolors are also present. less

Sir John Maxwell Tylden, a captain in the 43rd regiment of the British Army, kept this diary on an expedition from England to New Orleans, Louisiana. Entries date from October 27, 1814-May 10, 1815. Tylden records operations before New Orleans and at Mobile Bay and describes social and political life in Havana, Bermuda, and other locations. The diary includes watercolor sketches of coast lands, as well as a portrait of Tylden copied by Mrs. G.W. Smith less

This volume was kept by John M. Berrien, midshipman in the United States Navy. It contains a log of the U.S.S. Guerriere, commanded by John Smith and bearing the broad pennant of Commodore Charles C.B. Thompson. Entries were made between February 15 and June 19, 1829, as the ship sailed from the United States to Rio de Janeiro, Valparaiso, and Callao. The volume also contains a log of the U.S. frigate Brandywine, with entries from June 21-October 7, 1829, while the ship sailed from Callao and Rio de Janeiro to New York. The volume also includes a watercolor and a sketch of the Guerriere, as well as a sketch of the signal flags less

This logbook of the H.M.S. Firebrand and the H.M.S. Frolic was kept by the same (unknown) author. Entries pertaining to the Firebrand were made from December 1, 1847-June 16, 1848, when the ship sailed along the South American coast, stopping at: Colonia and Montevideo, Uruguay; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and Balna, Argentina. Entries pertaining to the H.M.S. Frolic were made from June 22, 1848-March 7, 1849 when the ship sailed from Portsmouth, England, stopping at Waterford and Cork, Ireland; Naples and Messina, Italy; the Piraeus and Salonica, Greece; and Smyrna, Turkey. Volume contains many watercolor sketches of South American and West Indian ports, not necessarily contemporaneous with the voyage described. A list of the sketches is filed with the volume less

This volume contains logbooks of the H.M.S. Mars and the H.M.S. Formidable. The Mars was captained by James Newburgh Strange, and this log was kept by Midshipman Frederick John Rendell from January 1, 1862 through February 7, 1863. It contains fourteen maps, four pen sketches, and two watercolor sketches, and it was kept while cruising in the Levant, stopping at Athens, Beirut, Larnaka, and other locations, thence to Spithead, England The logbook of the H.M.S. Formidable, bearing the flag of Vice Admiral Sir William Johnstone Hope and captained by William Garnham Luard, was also kept by Rendell. Entries were made from February 8-May 2, 1863, while the ship was at Sheerness, England less

This collection consists of material from U. S. Navy gunners John Lord and John R. Covington. Contents include regulations for U.S.S. Constitution; ordinance specifications of rigging and equipment of ships; formulas and tables in gunnery; gunners stores; and clippings related to the Constitution, its bell, and Jackson figurehead. Watercolor drawings by Lord depict the native costumes and views of Mediterranean countries, and of United States midshipmen of 1778 and 1827. Correspondence and a warrant for Covington are also contained herein less

F. Ross's journal of a voyage of the H.M.S. Tagus from England to the South Pacific, from November 26, 1813 through August 1814. Includes accounts of the capture of French ship of war Le Ceres and U.S.S. Essex and visits to Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo, Valparaíso, Callao, Guayaquil, Islands of Galapagos and Marquesas, and other locations. Includes eighteen watercolor sketches depicting the surrender of Le Ceres and views of Rio de Janeiro, La Plata, Montevideo, and other locations, as well as several unfinished pencil sketches, including "The Capture of the U.S.S. Essex." Volume appears to have been created in 1815, after the author's return to England less

This ink and watercolor drawing represents the sailing of the British fleet under Rear-Admiral Philip Durell in the 1759 expedition against Québec, depicting eighteen ships in the Halifax harbor. There is a textual explanation just below the image. Described in the New York Public Library Bulletin, vol. 40 (1936) pages 419-420 less

Volumes of the manuscript periodical issued and privately circulated by The Fraternity, a social literary club, between 1877 and 1878. Issues contain poems, short stories, essays, and letters, as well as pen and ink, pencil, and painted illustrations. Editors and contributors include G. H. Putnam, Octavius Brooks Frothingham, Robert Swain Gifford and his wife Frances E. Gifford, Bayard Taylor, E.C. Stedman, R.H. Stoddard, Christopher Pearse Cranch, Calvert Vaux, Charles Follen McKim, T. M. Coan, and others less

Richard Harrison Senie (1916-1986) was an artist and scenic designer. The Richard Harrison Senie papers, dating from the 1920s to 1964, document his life and career through stage and set designs, visual art, photographs, programs, letters, scrapbooks, and writings. less

Lady Anne Hamilton, Scots-born courtier and friend of Queen Caroline of Brunswick. Manuscript volume in ink, in divers hands, compiled by and for Lady Anne Hamilton, and possibly her sister, Lady Susan, Countess of Dunmore. Includes pieces copied from figures in Lady Anne's circle, such as M. G. Lewis and William Robert Spencer; also pieces by Thomas Moore, Richard Payne Knight, Samuel Rogers, Lord Byron, William Cowper, Charles Wolfe, R. B. Sheridan, William Sotheby, and Samuel Johnson. With a few original illustrations, some in vibrant watercolor. Bound in full contemporary leather, spine lettered in gilt with "POETRY" at the head and "A. H." at the foot. less

The Horace Smith manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection consists of writings, correspondence, and artwork. The writings include two holograph poems: "Music" and "Stanzas for the Bazaar held at Brighton for completing the Victoria Fountain on the Steyne;" only the former was published during Smith's lifetime. The bulk of the correspondence is dated 1829-1849. Correspondents include: Thomas Campbell, the poet; Thomas Hood, the poet and humorist; John Murray, the publisher; Robert Southey, the poet; and over thirty others. The artwork consists of one undated watercolor pastoral landscape, titled, "Mill at Lewes." less

Marianne Wing was born about 1819 in Braintree, Essex, England, the daughter of William Wing. By 1851 she was living in Chelmsford with her husband, William Abbott, a retired farmer, and their two young children, Joseph William and Clara Maria. Ten years later she was living with her husband in Black Notley. By 1881 she was widowed and living with her unmarried sister, Sarah Wing, in Lambeth. In 1889, at age 70, she married James Raper, a joiner/carpenter, at St Stephen's, Walbrook. She died an inmate at Peckham House Lunatic Asylum on February 17, 1892. Manuscript notebook containing 36 original poems and prose meditations, with 12 original illustrations. A dedication, to the author's brother, is dated January 20, 1836; another piece is dated 1834. Most of the other pieces are undated, but appear to have been written around the 1830's and are signed either "M Wing" or "M W." One poem (leaf 43 recto) is signed "Marianne Wing." The final two poems, dated 1880 and 1881 (each written to one of her grandchildren), are signed "Mrs. Abbott" and "M. Abbott," respectively. An ownership inscription at the front reads: "Mrs. W. Abbott / Original Poems." The illustrations, mostly watercolors of birds and flowers, include pencil drawings of Cowling Castle in Kent, a rose, and a sailboat. In contemporary green calf with gilt border on covers; spine gilt, with two red morocco labels reading "Original" and "Vol. I.". less

E. Beecroft of Lowestoft could not be identified. Botanical sketchbook containing the notes and illustrations of E. Beecroft, identified in a pencil note on the title page as "Mrs. Beecroft." The text opens with a five-page and two-line guide to Linnean taxonomy copied from Priscilla Wakefield's Introduction to Botany, followed by twenty-one lines on the pleasures of nature, apparenty by Beecroft herself. The bulk of the volume is composed of a series of carefully-rendered full-page pencil and watercolor illustrations of plant specimens (28 in all), followed by manuscript identifications and descriptions. A forty-eight page alphabetical list of plants, including Latin and (when possible) English names, is at the back. less

Most album entries are signed by members of the Godson family, including Eliza Godson, Richard Godson, Mrs. Richard Godson, Mary Anne Godson and Margaret Godson. The 1861 census lists Sarah Godson, age 56, living at Court House in Tenbury Wells, along with Margaret and Eliza, all three unmarried. Sarah Godson is still living with Margaret at Court House in the 1871 census, but her age is listed as 69. Other contributors to the album include Ann Say Nixon, Frances Mary Emily Sarragin, Marie Owen, and Eugenia Sabilla. Album formerly owned by Sarah Godson of Tenbury Wells, Worcester, England, filled with manuscript and artwork contributions by her family members and friends. On the first leaf recto is scripted in pencil, "Sarah Godson / February 1829," beneath which is written in pencil in a later hand, "Tenbury=Worcester / Tenbury Wells / E.A.G." The manuscript entries are mostly poems, some original, some copied (Byron's "Youth and Age"; Mary Anne Browne's "Woman's Heart"; Tennyson's "Anacreontics"). Among the artwork contributions are a fanciful painting of a woman composed entirely of flowers; a watercolor of a black woman carrying a basket; a highly-detailed pencil drawing of a crested pheasant; watercolors of a "Country Woman of Meris Wanden" and "A Milkman of Fribourg"; a watercolor of an Arabian man; a number of other watercolors and drawings (many of flowers); and several printed illustrations (engravings, etc.). Laid in is a drawing of a young woman, clearly based on an early photograph. less

1. Sleeping baby (pencil and ink wash). -- 2. Little girl in storm (ink wash and watercolor). -- 3. Girl within bush (pen and ink). -- 4. Orange and black urn (cut-out paper and ink). -- 5. Two dogs (pencil). -- 6. Woodland cottage, dated "Oct 26 1800," (watercolor). -- 7. "Jack daw" bird (ink wash). -- 8. Woman and child before candle, club motif (pencil and ink wash). -- 9. Figures within church, spade motif (pencil and ink wash). -- 10. Woman sorrowfully reading letter (watercolor). -- 11. "Our garden Stutt.," dated "19 Oct --9" (watercolor). -- 12. "In our garden Stutt." (watercolor). -- 13. "Heidelberg" (watercolor). -- 14. "Our garden at Stuttgard" (watercolor). -- 15. "Your garden at Heidelberg" (watercolor). -- 16. Violet, dated "15 May 1840" (watercolor). -- 17. "Snow drops," dated "Feb. 26 1822" (watercolor). -- 18. "Rolandseck near Bonn" (watercolor). -- 19. Woodland cottage, dated "3 Ap. 1809" (watercolor). -- 20. "A chapel near Grübingen, Würtemberg" (watercolor). -- 21. Lake scene with cottage (ink wash). -- 22. Tower and rocks (watercolor). -- 23. Wooded estate with lake (watercolor). -- 24. "I wish you joy my dear Olga" (watercolor). -- 25. Girl with tea service (watercolor and flower petal applique). -- 26. "Wechelberg," dated "1842" (watercolor). -- 27. Tent and figures in clearing (watercolor). -- 28. "Near Blasewitz, Dresden," dated "1842" (watercolor) -- 29. Ruins (watercolor). -- 30. "Treven," dated "8 July 1844" (watercolor). less

Richard Cobbold, English novelist and Church of England clergyman. Gilt red morocco notebook containing holograph account of Richard Cobbold's month's-long tour of France and Belgium, with his companion, Mr. Danneley, in the summer of 1817. Includes accounts of the Louvre, Versailles, Notre Dame, the Palais Royal, Tuilleries, and the Paris opera, as well as the Parisian gambling houses and their "wretched" inhabitants. Leaving Paris, the two travel to Brussles and then to Waterloo: "to look at it you would never suppose it had been the place of so much bloodshed." With three watercolors ("a view of Calais, from the road"; crucifix, tree and field; horse-drawn wagon) and several pencil sketches. less

Julia Powys and "CLP" could not be identified. Half green morocco album of manuscript verse, some apparently original, most copied from contemporary sources (including Amelia Opie and Lord Byron), in a few different hands; including an anonymous poem, "To a Young Lady on Her Expressing a Wish that Lord Byron Would Write Some Lines on the Much Lamented Princess Charlotte." Also included are six watercolors (a spinster at the piano; roses; "King Charles' window, Carisbrooke"; flowers; a cartoon with manuscript text, signed "CLP"; a sleeping dog); four ink drawings (a series of a lady and gentleman dancing; a bird, laid in; "Map of Matrimony," signed "CLP"; a man in study); one inserted scrap of manuscript music ("Russian Dances") and one engraved map of France. On the front cover is a green morocco label lettered in gilt: "ALBUM / JULIA POWYS / 1819.". less