Forbes, James, 1749-1819, Views in England, Wales, and Scotland, circa 1787-circa 1819
- Call Number:
- Folio A 2023 69
- Creator:
- Forbes, James, 1749-1819
- Title(s):
- Views in England, Wales, and Scotland.
- Date:
- circa 1787-circa 1819
- Extent:
- 3 volumes
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Series:
- Series III: Views in England, Wales, and Scotland.
- Part of Collection:
- volume 16 | volume 17 | volume 18
- Provenance:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Conditions Governing Access:
- The materials are open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use:
- The collection is the physical property of the Yale Center for British Art. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts.
- Scope and Content:
- The three volumes include approximately 250 watercolor and 150 wash drawings, one watercolor map, and 40 illustrations in other media including engravings, graphite drawings, and composite pictures. All have been affixed to leaves of the volumes. Most are signed, dated, and titled by Forbes, occasionally accompanied by verse or descriptive text. Most drawings date between 1787 and 1810. A handful of drawings in 1816 document a trip to Dover, on the way to Calais. Aside from a large cluster of drawings of Scotland at the end of volume 3 (dated 1799), there is no apparent organization by geography, chronology, or theme. Frequent subject matter includes rural topography, churches, castles, ruins, country seats, rivers, and coasts. The most frequently depicted regions include Durham, the Isle of Wight, the Isle of Thanet, Devonshire, Buckinghamshire, Cornwall, Hertfordshire, and Northumberland. Wales appears in a cluster of drawings near the end of volume 2 and the middle of volume 3. The section devoted to Scotland includes a dozen images of seaweed, some drawn in watercolor, others with specimens affixed to the page. There is also a composite picture of a ptarmigan drawn with watercolor and a small number of feathers. In volume 2, a few drawings are credited to artists other than Forbes, including an interior of Salisbury Cathedral by "Miss E. Wickins," 1815; a scene in Cumberland, by Eliza Rosée Forbes, 1804; and a chapter house at Margam, by "Miss Wake."
- Genre:
- Drawings (visual works), Watercolors (paintings), Travel sketches, Botanical illustrations, Ornithological illustrations, Maps, Engravings (prints), and Portraits
- Subject Terms:
- Forbes, James, 1749-1819. Descriptive letters and drawingsForbes, James, 1749-1819. Oriental memoirsMarine algae
- Associated Places:
- EnglandItalyScotlandWales
- Associated People/Groups:
- Forbes, James, 1749-1819
- Finding Aid Title:
- James Forbes archive
- Archival Object:
- https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/3866489
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/3866489?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1