Wales 1845
Sketchbook
1845 (drawn)
1845 (drawn)
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Many people in Britain in the nineteenth century wished to acquire the technique of sketching landscapes, and taught themselves, or took lessons from drawing masters. Following the example of such famous artists as Turner and David Cox, these amateurs, of which Newman Hall was one, sketched the more romantic aspects of the British landscape. He visited the dramatic mountain scenery to be found in the north of England, Scotland, and Wales, or the ancient churches and other mediaeval buildings, showing a keen nostalgia for the romantic past preserved in Britain or in northern Europe. Newman Hall, like many others, would sketch in the open air, pausing perhaps during a walking-tour to record a particularly attractive view.
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Title | Wales 1845 (assigned by artist) |
Materials and techniques | Pencil on paper |
Brief description | Sketchbook containing landscape sketches of Wales, entitled `Wales 1845', probably by Christopher Newman Hall, 1845 |
Physical description | Sketchbook containing 60 landscape sketches of Wales. Half bound in morocco, with marbled boards, front cover lettered in gilt 'Wales 1845'. |
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Credit line | Given by Hampstead Museum |
Object history | This sketchbook is one of five by a competent artist, probably the famous Victorian preacher and hymn-writer, [Christopher] Newman Hall. He died at Vine House, Hampstead, in 1902. Four similar notebooks, dated from the 1870s to the 1880s [one inscribed `Newman Hall'] came at the same time to the Hampstead Museum. All these notebooks and sketchbooks were probably at 17 Dennings Road where the Holton family moved in about sixty years ago. The owner then was Miss Ethel Playle who died in the 1950s. Mrs Rose Holton gave the notebooks and sketchbooks to Hampstead Museum, which subsequently donated the sketchbooks to the Victoria and Albert Museum. |
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Summary | Many people in Britain in the nineteenth century wished to acquire the technique of sketching landscapes, and taught themselves, or took lessons from drawing masters. Following the example of such famous artists as Turner and David Cox, these amateurs, of which Newman Hall was one, sketched the more romantic aspects of the British landscape. He visited the dramatic mountain scenery to be found in the north of England, Scotland, and Wales, or the ancient churches and other mediaeval buildings, showing a keen nostalgia for the romantic past preserved in Britain or in northern Europe. Newman Hall, like many others, would sketch in the open air, pausing perhaps during a walking-tour to record a particularly attractive view. |
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Accession number | E.3666-2004 |
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Record created | July 18, 2005 |
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