Album of landscape drawings and compiled by W.B. Stapley.
Published / Created:
England, 1855-1870.
Physical Description:
1 v. ([42] leaves) : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Information
Related Content:
View a selection of digital images in the Yale Center for British Art's online catalogue
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/orbis:9917516
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Notes:
Little is known about W.B. Stapley. He is recorded as deputy-storekeeper of Tynemouth Castle in Hart's Army List for 1857. Evidence from the present album confirms that he was still active in 1870.
Contents:
All drawings are in graphite, with added white, except where noted: 1. Tynemouth Priory [watercolor over graphite] -- 2. Jesmond, New Castle [albumen photograph] -- 3. Barnard Castle, Durham -- 4. Abbey Bridge, Rokeby, Durham -- 5. Egglestone Abbey, Rokeby, Durham -- 6. Landulph Church, Cornwall -- 7. Pentilley Castle, on Tamar, Cornwall -- [Four fox-hunting scenes, in pen and black ink with gray wash] -- 8. Gateway, Hulne Abbey [graphite and watercolor] -- 9. Hulne Abbey, Alnwick -- 10. Shields from Tynemouth Castle -- 11. South Shields, from Tynemouth Castle -- 12. Spannish Battery, Mouth of Tyne -- 13. Jesmond, New Castle on Tyne -- 14. North Shields -- 15. Ravensworth Castle, Durham -- 16. Penlilley Castle, Devon -- 17. The Tamar, Devon -- 18. Lamesly Church, Durham -- 19. Mount Edgcumbe, Cornwall -- 20. The Tamar, from Kinterbury House -- 21. Tregothnan House (Lord Falmouth) on the Fal -- 22. Longships Lighton, fm. Lands End -- 23. Pen Olver, fm. Lizard -- 24. Mount Edgecumbe -- 25. Lizard Lights and Bumble Rock-- 26. River Fal from Trelissick -- 27. Bay near Logan Rocks, Lands End -- 28. Meavy Church, Devon -- 29. Kynance Cove, Cornwall -- 30. Fal River, fm. Malpas.
Subject Terms:
Stapley, W. B. | Fox hunting -- Great Britain -- Pictorial works. | Alnwick (England) -- Pictorial works. | Cornwall (England : County) -- Pictorial works. | Durham (England : County) -- Pictorial works. | Land's End (England) -- Pictorial works. | Newcastle upon Tyne (England) -- Pictorial works. | Tamar River (England) -- Pictorial works. | Tyne, River (England) -- Pictorial works.