The natuorama; : or, Nature's endless transposition of views on the Thames. This picture, contained in the form of an embellished book, is composed of the following views on the Thames: - 1. Star and Garter, Richmond Hill. 2. Staines. 3. Clifton. 4. Boulney, near Henley. 5. Clifton Spring. 6. Garrick's House, Hampton. 7. Windsor Castle. 8. Eton College. 9. Sion House. 10. Mrs. Sullivan's, Thames Ditton. 11. Pope's Villa, Twickenham. 12. Fawney Court, near Henley. 13. Hampton Court. 14. Oxford. 15. Hampton Ferry. 16. Goring Church. 17. City Barge, near Kingston. 18. Oatlands. The parts separately form correct views of towns or noble mansions, yet are so contrived as to produce, by transposition, every species of beautiful landscape, intersected with islands, barges, groupes of figures, cattle &c.; the whole forming an infinity of picturesque combination, and capable of being changed to thousands of views. One peculiar novelty in the management of the respective views, is a moveable scene of Pope in his grotto, by which is added a rich fore-ground of mechanical perspective; and is intended not only as an amusement, but also to assist students in drawing from nature, and particularly to excite ingenuity and invention in the art. / The drawings taken from nature by R. Havell, Jun.
Robert Havell the younger (Reading 1793 – 1878)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1824
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3245982
Summary
Bibliographic description
1 box (18 leaves of plates) : all col. ill. ; 21 cm. Pencil number "E5225" on verso of cut out frame. Manuscript captions on plates. Ephemera: loosely inserted: (1) part of letter from bookdealer to Lord Fairhaven, 14th December 1943, offering him first refusal on two books with coloured aquatint views of the Thames, with description of this item on verso (price cut out) [i.e.: from the firm Charles J. Sawyer Ltd. to Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]; (2) typescript catalogue card. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century quarter brown morocco, brown cloth-covered case, spine lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Views of the Thames', as issued.
Makers and roles
Robert Havell the younger (Reading 1793 – 1878), artist