Richmond Castle – Original 1835 graphite drawing

Anon. Richmond Castle

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An original 1835 graphite drawing Richmond Castle.

A dramatic graphite drawing, showing Richmond Castle seen from the river Swale. On pink paper.

Adhered to the verso of the paper is a hand-written poem about friendship, dated 'South Town May 1835'. The hamlet South Town is in Hampshire.

Mary Ann Hawke

This work comes from an intriguing album of pictures inscribed (in a fine copperplate hand) Mary Ann Hawke, and dated 1835. This is likely to be Mary Hawke (neé Pearse), who lived from 1810 to 1895, and who was born in Devon but emigrated to New Zealand. As well as paintings and drawings by a variety of hands, the collection also includes some original handwritten poetry verses by Robert Ravenshaw Rogers, a successful English architect who emigrated to Australia. These paintings show the wide range of treatments of floral subjects that were popular in the mid-nineteenth century. While some are relatively naturalistic studies of single plants, others are relatively stylised. Some show a variety of flowers arranged decoratively in posies. A few even create something of a 3D-effect, with cut out images superimposed on a painted background. Taken together, these works provide a fascinating picture of popular taste at the beginning of the Victorian era.