£1,700
Travel. Henrietta Matilda Crompton (1793-1881), Switzerland, via a tour of the Rhine, 1836, accompanied by her brother Robert Edward Crompton (1805-1840) and their sister Caroline Rachel (1809-1885), an album of 67 en plein air illustrations, of which 45 are watercolour &/or sepia wash, 8 pen-and-ink, and 14 pencil drawings, the last repaired and with some chipped losses, mostly full-page format, but for 5 double-page panoramas, named &/or annotated throughout, including glaciers, mountains and alpine scenes, as well as named-view of Fribourg with its suspension bridge, some urban topography, slightly later 19th c 4pp ALS loosely-inserted and 3pp note, recto pastedown with contemporary and slightly later manuscript inscriptions dated 1836 & 1878 respectively, contemporary roan over marbled boards, split with loose/loosening contents, oblong folio (27 x 37.5cm)
Henrietta Matilda Crompton and her eight siblings were born into a rich banking family, of Esholt Hall, Yorkshire, and upon the death of their father each inherited the considerable sum of £11,000. Henrietta never married and spent a comfortable life travelling, making excursions to the Yorkshire coast, visiting friends' country houses, and occasionally taking longer trips to Picturesque parts of the United Kingdom and Europe (such as this case); this leisured travel allowed the lady to pursue her talent for drawing, having taken lessons throughout her long life, from renowned artists Copley Feilding, David Cox, and others.
Three of HMC's sketchbooks are present in the collections of the Yale Center for British Art.
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