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• Author/Creator:Tomes, John, 1791-1863, artist.
  
• Title:[Album of watercolors of the countryside around Weston Sands House] [art original].
  
• Production:[Warwickshire, England], [ca. 1818-1850]
  
• Physical Description:90 drawings in 1 album : watercolor ; sheets 24.5 x 35 cm or smaller, bound to 27 x 38 cm
  

• Yale Holdings

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  • Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating)
    Request for Use in the Lewis Walpole Library
    
    
  • Call Number: Folio 75 T656 818
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Notes:For further information, consult library staff.
    
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• Notes:Title supplied by cataloger, based on dealer's description.
  All but two of the drawings are pasted on the rectos of the album leaves; some have pencil manuscript notes giving the location of the subject; some of the first watercolors mounted on the first pages of the album are dated '1818'.
  Bound in contemporary rust-colored hard grain half morocco and marbled sides, with gilt lettered morocco label 'Sketches by John Tomes - Weston Sands' to front cover, white moirés silk pastedown.
  Purchased from Bogislav Winner, April 2021.
  
• Summary:An album of watercolors assembled by the gentleman farmer and amateur artist John Tomes showing views of his manor house Weston Sands House and the surrounding countryside. Tomes recorded his estate from many angles and in all seasons as well as picturesque spots in the neighbouring countryside, including several views of the River Avon which bordered his estate. Also included are a series of watercolors taken on a trip to the Isle of Wight. There is also a view of Windsor Castle (?) across the Thames and many watercolors of medieval ruins, abbeys, and castles. Tomes also copied a number of Turner prints from the ‘Liber Studiorum’ (published 1807-1819) and his ‘Picturesque views on the Southern Coast’ (published 1814-1826).
  
• Variant and related titles:Cover title: Sketches by John Tomes, Weston Sands
  
• Format:Visual Material
• Incomplete contents:Oaks near Quarc Abbey, Isle of White [sic], 1818 -- The Keep. Carisbrooke Casle, Isle of Wight, 1818 -- Alum Bay, Isle of Wight -- Tintern Abbey -- Hurley Castle -- Harley Castle (??) --
  
• Cite as:John Tomes, Album of Watercolors of the Countryside around Weston Sands House. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
  
• Subjects:Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851--Influence.
  Windsor Castle, depicted.
  Castles & palaces.
  Abbeys.
  Ruins.
  Estates.
  Rivers.
  Warwickshire (England)--Pictorial works.
  Isle of Wight (England)--Pictorial works.
  
• Genre/Form:Views.
  Landscape drawings.
  Watercolors.
  Amateur works.
  Albums (books)