Artist Unknown

one album by or attributed to Thomas Hearne (15), Angelica Kauffman, Paul Sandby (2), William Henry Pyne, Francis Wheatley and other hands
including two mills at Lyneham Wiltshire, Willow Park, from the Farm hill Brinkworth, in the hale-end Brinkworth, at the Lea Wiltshire, back of the Three Crowns Brinkworth, at Clipsbury Green Brinkworth, at Christianmalford, at Grittenham, in the street at Brinkworth, in Bradon Forest, in Windsor forest, figures ploughing, figures herding cattle and sheep, figures mowing, figures slaughtering a bull, figures tanning a bull hide, figures building a cart (4), men erecting a bird trap (2), an Indian with a sword, a fair possibly in Salisbury, a goat, a continental town square, hunting scenes (3) and other figure studies
Seventy-five, title page signed: DRAWINGS of/COTTAGES, FARM HOUSES/etc in/WILTSHIRE & BERKSHIRE/By THOMAS HEARNE and eleven inscribed
Forty-four pencil, twenty-two pencil and wash, eight pen and ink over pencil and one pen and ink and grey wash over pencil
With a reproduction of a wash drawing of a town scene and three animal prints



Another album including views of Moscow (8),  Arnstein (2), a castle near Arnstein, Dausenau (2), Braubach and the castle above it, a village about 5 miles from Treves, the  Roman Palace at Treves, Dinant (3), Down the Rhine, Huy (4) Below Nassau, St Malo, Boulogne, near Boulogne (3), Harfleur near Havre de Grace, Harfleur, Buttermere and others
Sixty one, twenty six inscribed with titles
Each pencil



The other album including views of Windermere looking south, between Borrowdale and Wasdale, Keswick (2),  Styhead pass, Buttermere,  Langdale Pikes, Windermere looking to Ambleside from Knowl, view near Llangollen, Ullswater and Patterdale, Windermere looking north, Keswick from opposite side of the lake near Borrowdale, Dalton Castle Market Place, Raglan Castle, Tintern Abbey, Lake Llanberis, Oystermouth Castle, Newport Castle bridge, near Swansea, Clifton, Caephilly Castle, Chepstow, River Wye, Charlecote, near Cheltenham, Knaresborough, Spofforth Castle, Durham (2), York, waterfall above the inn at Ambleside,  Leith Hill, Leith Hill Place Surrey, Killarny, Ludlow, Parsonage at Bishop’s Cleeve near Cheltenham, Salisbury, Teignmouth, Sidmouth (2), Vale of the Usk Brecknock
One-hundred and five, most inscribed with title and one dated Feb 14 1829
One-hundred and two pencil and three watercolour, one on paper watermarked: JWHATMAN/TURKEY MILL/1825



 

In 1749, when Thomas Hearne was five years old, his father died and his mother moved the family from Marshfield to the village of Brinkworth, near Malmesbury in Wiltshire.  At the time Brinkworth was a small farming community and its houses were dotted along a ridge of high land overlooking a plain to the south.  Hearne spent much of his childhood there and many of his adult works, including a number of drawings in one of the albums included in the present lot, depict the cottages and landscape where he grew up.  Hearne moved to London, probably in the 1750's, but he frequently returned to Wiltshire to visit his mother.  He is known to have made a trip back to Brinkworth in 1797 as the drawings included in the present lot show.  Another drawing from this trip entitled At Bradonside, Brinkworth is now in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge