Beschreibung:

An album of various watercolours, drawings, engraved views and portraits compiled by a member of the Cookson family of Dorset, circa 1820-40, containing 32 various watercolours and drawings, mostly landscapes and portraits, and approximately 65 prints and engravings (the latter mostly etchings after Dutch Old Masters, views of historic buildings and churches including St. Cross Hospital, the Cathedral and the Denery at Winchester, Quorndon Church, Derbyshire, The Font at Bradford Abbas Church, Dorset, by the Reverend H. Turner, etc., and engraved portraits including George Lillingston, Lady Louth, Countess Cowper, Miss Marian Millicent Barton, Lady Hanmer, Lady Erskine and Lady Radstock), the watercolours include Tempio Antico, initialled FCC, a pen, ink and wash view of St. Peter's Tower, Dorchester, initialled to verso E.A.C., pencil portraits of Emma Fisher and Mrs Fisher, Close, Sarum, a pen, ink and brown wash study of the pulpit in St. Martin's Church, Salisbury, by Henry Wickens, dated 1838, an attractive landscape study of Windsor Castle in blue-grey wash over pencil on pale blue paper, etc. Provenance: Purchased at an unidentified auction on 10 February 1977, lot 170 (ticket inside) by Desmond Burgess, map and print dealer. This album appears to have been compiled by one of the Cooksons of Dorset, a prominent family which included Mary Cookson (born 1791), who married the reverend John Fisher (1788-1832), and lived in Osmington, Dorset. The Fishers became significantly close friends of the painter John Constable who spent his honeymoon with his new wife Maria (nee Bicknell) there, and painted the Fishers' portraits in 1816. (1)