An Omnium Gatherum

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Reference
- GB 210 NLW MS 23988B.
Alternative Id.
Dates of Creation
- [1820s]
Name of Creator
- Stratford, Harriette Wingfield, 1789-1863
Language of Material
- English French Welsh English, French, Welsh;
Physical Description
- 174 ff. (numerous blank leaves, including ff. 118-159, 161-172); an additional 3 pencil and chalk drawings of Classical subjects are kept loosely with the volume (NLW MS 23988iB) ; 180 x 110 mm.
  Contemporary red half morocco.
Location
- ARCH/MSS (GB0210)

Scope and Content

A manuscript album, entitled 'An Omnium Gatherum' (f. 1 verso), compiled during the 1820s (dated 1822 and 1826 on ff. 73 verso, 106) by Harriette Grant (1789-1863; later Harriette Wingfield Stratford), daughter of Henry Grant (1743-1831) of Gnoll Castle, Glamorgan. The volume includes literary excerpts, antiquarian notes, riddles, and poems, written in English, French and Welsh, together with numerous well-executed watercolur, ink and pencil studies, some noted as being 'after Rembrandt' (ff. 1 verso, 7 verso, 10, 16, 17 verso).
The drawings include views of the Vale of Ebbw from Abercarne (f. 5), Neath Castle (f. 40), view from the fishing stool at Gnoll (f. 41 verso), Llantwit Church from the terrace at Gnoll Castle (f. 58), the upper lodge at Gnoll (f. 69), part of the chapel of Neath Abbey (ff. 78 verso, 80), Arthur's Stone in Gower (f. 81 verso), a female Glamorgan peasant (f. 98), a male Welsh peasant (f. 99), Briton Ferry Church (f. 100 verso), a female peasant (f. 104), Gnoll Castle (f. 105 verso), and Melin Crython (f. 160).

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