Sketchbook containing views recording a tour in Switzerland and France

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Description: Fifty-two total works, including twenty pen and ink drawings, seventeen watercolours, nine pencil drawings, and six unfinished pencil sketches.
Names: Graham, Thomas Henry, 1793-1881 (Artist)
Dates / Origin: Date Created: 1818
Library locations: Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle; Shelf locator: Pforz BND-MSS (Graham, T. H.)
Topics: Switzerland -- 19th century; France -- 19th century; Gessner, Salomon, 1730-1788; Desaix, Louis-Charles-Antoine, 1768-1800; Monuments & memorials
Genres: Drawings; Pictorial works; Sketches; Sketchbooks
Notes: Biographical/historical: Thomas Henry Graham was born 25 June 1793 to Elizabeth Susanna Davenport Graham, the children's book writer, and her husband, a lawyer, Thomas Graham (1751-1813), of Edmond Castle. Thomas Henry went to Harrow School, then Cambridge University, after which he took a two year Grand Tour. He served as Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace for Cumberland, and was appointed High Sheriff in 1824. In 1829, he married Mary Carnegie, daughter of Sir David Carnegie. Graham died on 5 February 1881, at The Elms, Eastbourne.
Physical Description: Watercolors; Ink drawings; Pencil works; Extent: 1 volume
Type of Resource: Still image; Text
Identifiers: NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b19422067; Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 665bb030-2e5b-0133-a938-60f81dd2b63c

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