Untitled
probably Algernon Peckover (1803-1893)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1830 - 1844
Materials
Place of origin
Cumbria
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Peckover House, Cambridgeshire
NT 781848
Summary
Two framed pencil sketches from a travel album circa 1830-1844. Probably by William or Algernon Peckover. Typescript attached to each sketch 'London 1982. This drawing came from a travel album of 112 pages, 18" long by 10" wide, with tissue between each page. A carefully annotate index in copper plate writing in sepia ink prefaced it, followed by a title page written in pencil 'From 25th September 1830 to 3rd october 1844'. (It was interesting to note that most of the drawings were in fact done in the autumn months). It had been initialled inside the covers, again in pencil, AP and AJP 1920. Inside the album was a torn card, from the Poor Relief Committee addressed simply to 'Lord Peckover, Wisbech', which was dated and postmarked 1912. The journeys described were mostly English, quite a few centring round East Anglia (one or two, possibly feminine, close to Wisbech). There were one or two excursions to Holland and Northern France. Yorkshire and the Lake District predominated, with a few of Wales and Scotland. Presumably this was an album which had been handed down. It found its way into London Auction rooms in 1981'.
Provenance
Probably created by Algernon Peckover and handed down through the Peckover family, via Baron Peckover and his daughters Alexandrina and Anna Jane Peckover. Given to the National Trust by Mr Shiels in 2011, after he inherited it from his mother who had bought it from a sale at a London auction room in 1981.
Makers and roles
probably Algernon Peckover (1803-1893), artist