View a selection of digital images in the Yale Center for British Art's online catalogue
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/orbis:9316277
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Notes:
The Cromptons were a wealthy banking family at Esholt Hall, Yorkshire. Upon the death of Joshua Crompton in 1832, Henrietta Matilda Crompton (1793-1881) and her eight siblings each inherited the considerable sum of £11,000. Henrietta never married and spent a comfortable life making excursions to Yorkshire coastal resorts, visiting friends in the country, and occasionally taking longer trips to various "picturesque" parts of Britain and Europe. Typically, for a young woman of her class, Henrietta was educated at home by governesses and private tutors, receiving instruction in French, music, dancing, and drawing. She was particularly talented in drawing and continued to take lessons throughout her long life, from renowned artists Copley Fielding and David Cox, among others. A detailed account of her life and works is available in Letters & papers of Henrietta Matilda Crompton & her family, a list with extracts, & The art of Henrietta Matilda Crompton. By Stephen Allen, edited by M.Y. Ashcroft. 1994.
Contents:
Col. Sir Wm Herries' Cottage, Lynmouth -- Sir William Herries' cottage, Lynmouth, Devon -- Glastonbury Abbey -- The new land or raised reef -- The brown Avon from Clifton -- Untitled study of trees -- Salisbury Plain between Amesbury & Deptford; Stonehenge -- Stonehenge -- Mr. Robert Herries' pretty cottage, close to St. Juliens, Kent -- Dunster Castle, near Minhead -- Untitled small cottage -- Lynmouth -- Waterfall, Lynmouth -- Sir W. Herries' grounds 1840 -- Lynmouth -- Windsor Castle, town & Eton from Windsor Park -- The pretty bay of Lynmouth, north Devon -- Linton Church, Mr. Sandford's house, Mr. Scott's, Lynmouth Bay, Mr. Herries' beautiful cottage -- Linton, after ascending Porlock Hill over Exmoor -- Untitled church -- Combe Martin -- Ilfracombe -- River Toridge flows into the sea by Appledore -- Gallentry Bower -- Clovelly -- Clovelly -- Endsleigh cottage, Duchess of Bedford -- Plymouth Sound -- The Citadel -- Village & castle of Stoke Gabriel -- Untitled -- Sharpham -- Totnes -- Ainsty's Cove -- Torquay -- Petit Tor -- Dawlish -- Park at Luscombe -- Manhead -- From the library window at Manhead -- Drive from Dawlish to Pouderham by the Exe. -- York Hotel, Sidmouth -- River Severn.
