Pictorial album
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
Unknown
Materials
Paper
Collection
Coniston, Cumbria
NT 629503
Summary
Green album of watercolour and gouache sketches with 'Photographs' in gold lettering. Stuck into album- i) card of hips on fence 'Time be good to thee'; ii) gouache; sm pansies; iii) gouache; mixed flowers; iv) gouache; singe pink rose; v) w/c, colombine; vi) daffodil head; vii) daffodil head singed 'IAK'; viii) w/c, orange blossom; ix) w/c, daisies, signed 'IK'; x) forget-me-nots 'April 2nd 1923'; xi) cranesbill, 'IK'; xii) gouache, Canterbury Bells in hedgerow; xiii) gouache, scabious; xiv)anemone; xv) dahlia; xvi) 2 yellow pansies; xvii) purple pansy; xviii) wall flower; xix) cranesbill, 'IK'; xx) honeysuckle, 'IK'; xxi) leaf; xxii) rosebuds; xxiii) greetings card - violets; xxiv) pink rosebud; xxv) periwinkle; xxvi) anemones in vase, card; xxvii) 2 roses - collage Loose in album - xxviii) yellow chrysanthemum; xxix) hops and michaelmas daisy; xxx) sm. pink flowers; xxxi) single apricot rose; xxxii) cornflowers in vase signed 'IK'; xxxiii) pink rose - collage; xxxiv) primulas and forget-me-nots; xxxv) gentian; xxxvi) pink speedwell; xxxvii) fragment of flowers; xxxviii) periwinkles, silhouette
Provenance
Part of a collection of pictures, mainly watercolour/gouache flower paintings by Irene Kendal, also work by her sister Mary, her father Thomas and other artists, plus photographs, personal effects and ephemara.Collection given to the National Trust by Irene Kendal in 1995, together with her home, High Ground House, Torver, Coniston, and some of the house contents. Irene Kendal wished for her work to be displayed in the house.