File 763 802 D795+
Acquired April 2024
A young, fashionably dressed couple ride horses to the right through a barren landscape. The woman rides sidesaddle and faces away from the viewer; the man looks back over his right shoulder, an unhappy expression on his face.
Drawings B87 no. 33 Box D200
Acquired April 2024
“A town surrounded by fields and open countryside occupies a broad river valley between a high rocky slope in the foreground and distant hills in the background. Buildings, including a large church with a tall steeple, a smaller church or chapel with a square tower, a building with a classical portico, and a factory with a smokestack, line a few main streets. Many buildings appear to be houses, some with barns and sheds. Rail fences divide the fields. Trees are clustered around the buildings or arranged in rows. Some trees, including a large tree in the left foreground, appear to be evergreens. A river winds through the background, lined in places by trees. An arched stone bridge crosses a small stream in the center foreground. Two cows are in a field nearby. There appears to be a tower on the highest hill in the background. Clusters of buildings and a railroad train are barely visible in the distance.”–Connecticut Museum of Culture and History collection.
840.00.00.84++
Acquired April 2024
A young, pretty English woman in fashionable attire takes the arm of a handsome, well-dressed Frenchman.
816.00.00.84
Acquired April 2024
“A handsome young Highland officer walks arm-in-arm with a slightly taller young woman. Her hair under her flat feathered hat is in a small bag or net of tartan. Behind these walk in single file the family descending in height. First, a youth in Highland uniform, next three girls, the second without a hat, her hair curling on her shoulders. Last a small boy, in Highland uniform, carrying a stick across his shoulder, musket-wise, and holding a dog on a lead. The dress of all the girls is plainer, skimpier, and shorter than that of Frenchwomen; all, except the youngest, have bodices or spencers of different colours from their skirts.”–British Museum online catalogue.
816.02.00.01
Acquired April 2024
“A young woman stands within a compass inscribed ‘Fear God’, holding an open book inscribed ‘The Pleasures of Imagination Realized’. At her feet is an open chest full of guineas from which hang bank-notes and jewels; it is inscribed ‘The Reward of Virtue’. A small dog stands beside her. In the background (right) is a country house, on the left farm-buildings and haystacks. The four corners are filled … with the disasters which beset the woman who does not ‘keep within compass’. (1) A woman weeps dejectedly with cards and an empty purse on the ground at her feet. (2) A drunken woman lets an infant fall from her arms; on the wall is a torn print inscribed ‘Domestic Happiness’. (3) A woman is being conducted to the watch-house by two watchmen, one with his lantern, the other with a rattle. (4) She beats hemp in Bridewell, a man standing behind her with a whip, as in Hogarth’s ‘Harlot’s Progress’. …”–British Museum
832.00.00.53
Acquired April 2024
“Satire on the English: a family in descending order of height, the father in military uniform, the daughter an identical version of her mother, and the smallest boy dressed as a jester..”–British Museum online catalogue.
816.02.00.02
Acquired April 2024
“A lady, stout and plain, her knees awkwardly apart, sits behind a small round tea-table filling a cup from a large urn. Seven other ladies sit on her right and left, in a semicircle, on upright chairs, in silent boredom. A child sits by its ugly middle-aged mother on the extreme right. A black servant in livery hands a tray on which are cups, cream-jug, and small (?) rolls. The room is bare except for table, chairs, and a narrow curtained window.”–British Museum online catalogue.
814.00.00.43
Acquired April 2024
A scene outdoors with a group of three women conversing on the left as a man purchases turnips(?) from a street vendor.
810.00.00.86
Acquired April 2024
Album of watercolor drawings depicting exotic animals, copied by the artist Ann Rich from the first few parts of the Naturalist’s Pocket Magazine (London, 1798-1802).
72 798 R498
Acquired April 2024