Original Drawings by J.F. Lewis: 1054

Components of the work

Folio Size Height 241 mm Width 215 mm
Album Size Height 253 mm Width 248 mm

Inscription or legends present

• Text: ORIGINAL DRAWINGS / BD / J.F. LEWIS
• Location: Spine
• Method of creation: Gilt stamp

• Text: Sketches by / J.F. Lewis, 1826. / 1054
• Location: Upper centre of front coverboard
• Method of creation: MS label

• Text: EGS-C / 1912
• Location: Inside front cover
• Method of creation: Ink

• Text: (Capt: Edward George Spencer-Churchill / who inherited Northwick Park)
• Location: Inside front cover
• Method of creation: Ink

• Text: (Baron Northwick)
• Location: Inside front cover
• Method of creation: Bookplate

• Text: (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge)
• Location: Inside front cover
• Method of creation: Label

• Text: Darlington Hall / ? (word indecipherable) Totnes Devon / August 20th / May Lord / your very kind letter / I have received here where I / have arrived and your letter / followed me from Langdon Hall / I shall be able to do myself / the pleasure of visiting you / at Cheltenham at the time / your Lordship has kindly / fixed before the end of August / and as I go with you to Northwick / I dare say it will be about / the 29th or 30rh of August and it / will give my son equal pleasure / also to meet and visit your / Lordship at the same / time and I have written / to him to acquaint (him of) your / Lordships kind invitation. / I shall come (short?) / to Gloster (sic), and to Cheltenham / and I have the pleasure / to be my Lord / yours very obliged / Respectfully / F.C. Lewis / Rt. Honble (sic) Northwick.
• Location: Hinged between first and second interleaves
• Method of creation: Black ink on azure paper

• Text: Germany, Switzerland, Piedmont / and Italy - June 12 - Dec 15 (and below in a different hand, graphite) 1826
• Location: Fourth interleaf
• Method of creation: Graphite label

Identification numbers

Accession number: 1054
Primary reference Number: 11839
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 18 December 2023 Last processed: Monday 18 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints