Lot Essay
Many of these drawings are inscribed 'from a sketch on the spot by Capt. Gustavno H. Coulson, R.N.
John Wilson Carmichael (1799-1868)
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John Wilson Carmichael (1799-1868)
Volume II: An Album of Watercolours and Drawings of Landscapes, Seascapes and Topographical Views
The Album includes the following subjects: Portland Breakwater, Athens, Yarmouth, Cape Carthage, the Danube, Shields, Coquet Island, Gigleswick Lancaster, Blackwall, Lante, Sealby Mill, Bywell, Whitby, Greenhithe, Pandon Dean, Town Moor, Newcastle, tacking ship just before her keel touched the ground, Ousefleet, Inchkeith, Whitedrift, Seaton sluice, on the Humber, Learzes, Newcastle, Leo-ping-ton, Lestong, the Lady Deversham wreck at Shields, Coble Dean, Tyne, Cullercoats from the Dyke, Cullercoats from the South, Bogue Fort, South Wanting, China, crossing the sands, Holy Island, Castle Eden Dean, Holy Island, West Hartlepool, Angeles Argus, Java, Straits of Sunda, Learzes, Newcastle, going on to the sands, Holy Island, Budle Mills, Millbank, rocks, Cullercoats, Calshot Castle looking towards the Isle of Wight, mill near Kenton Gate, Lancaster, Warden Church, on the Tyne near Wallsend, Chusan, China, Hilton Castle on the Wear, near Greenhead, foot of Windermere, Edinburgh from the sea, Beirout, Tynemouth, Marsden, Greenhood, Lancashire, on the road from Ulverstone to Greenhood, Etherly coal pits, Flamborough Head, North Shields, Hartlepool, Shotley Bridge, Sunderland life boat, Scarborough Pier, Sebergham Bridge, off the Pier, Scarborough, on the Thames, Southampton, Holy Island, west end of Shields Harbour, Wylam, Sunderland, Cape Shanting, Yellow Sea, Old Hartlepool from Redcar, the loss of the Frederica, Prussian brig, land at Weymouth Bay, Herne Bay, the Falls of St. Ann, Canada, on the Tyne at Howden, St. Bernard's Well, Leith, the Yorkshire land from Hartlepool, Whitby, Isle of Portland, Carlisle Abbey and others
some signed with initials 'JWC', one signed in full 'J W Carmichael, some numbered, the majority inscribed and variously dated from 1836 to 1846
pencil, brown and grey wash and watercolour
bound in full, contemporary, straight grained maroon morocco, with elaborate foliate gilt roll-tool border and gilt roll-tool turn-ins, the spine with gilt floral motifs and title (extremities rubbed)
22 x 15¼in. (56 x 40cm.) overall (88)
Volume II: An Album of Watercolours and Drawings of Landscapes, Seascapes and Topographical Views
The Album includes the following subjects: Portland Breakwater, Athens, Yarmouth, Cape Carthage, the Danube, Shields, Coquet Island, Gigleswick Lancaster, Blackwall, Lante, Sealby Mill, Bywell, Whitby, Greenhithe, Pandon Dean, Town Moor, Newcastle, tacking ship just before her keel touched the ground, Ousefleet, Inchkeith, Whitedrift, Seaton sluice, on the Humber, Learzes, Newcastle, Leo-ping-ton, Lestong, the Lady Deversham wreck at Shields, Coble Dean, Tyne, Cullercoats from the Dyke, Cullercoats from the South, Bogue Fort, South Wanting, China, crossing the sands, Holy Island, Castle Eden Dean, Holy Island, West Hartlepool, Angeles Argus, Java, Straits of Sunda, Learzes, Newcastle, going on to the sands, Holy Island, Budle Mills, Millbank, rocks, Cullercoats, Calshot Castle looking towards the Isle of Wight, mill near Kenton Gate, Lancaster, Warden Church, on the Tyne near Wallsend, Chusan, China, Hilton Castle on the Wear, near Greenhead, foot of Windermere, Edinburgh from the sea, Beirout, Tynemouth, Marsden, Greenhood, Lancashire, on the road from Ulverstone to Greenhood, Etherly coal pits, Flamborough Head, North Shields, Hartlepool, Shotley Bridge, Sunderland life boat, Scarborough Pier, Sebergham Bridge, off the Pier, Scarborough, on the Thames, Southampton, Holy Island, west end of Shields Harbour, Wylam, Sunderland, Cape Shanting, Yellow Sea, Old Hartlepool from Redcar, the loss of the Frederica, Prussian brig, land at Weymouth Bay, Herne Bay, the Falls of St. Ann, Canada, on the Tyne at Howden, St. Bernard's Well, Leith, the Yorkshire land from Hartlepool, Whitby, Isle of Portland, Carlisle Abbey and others
some signed with initials 'JWC', one signed in full 'J W Carmichael, some numbered, the majority inscribed and variously dated from 1836 to 1846
pencil, brown and grey wash and watercolour
bound in full, contemporary, straight grained maroon morocco, with elaborate foliate gilt roll-tool border and gilt roll-tool turn-ins, the spine with gilt floral motifs and title (extremities rubbed)
22 x 15¼in. (56 x 40cm.) overall (88)
Provenance
Herbert Henry Edward Jermingham, Longridge Towers.