TRAHERNE (JOHN MONTGOMERY)


"Catalogue of Scraps. No. 1", an album of watercolours, sketches, photographs (loose), printed ephemera, and prints relating to Traherne's family, antiquarian interests, the Talbot family and Magram House in Glamorgan, approximately 170 leaves, approximately 25 watercolours, 20 ink or pencil sketches, 9 photographs (including 2 salt prints, loosely inserted), 300 engravings or lithographs, mounted on verso only, contemporary half red morocco gilt, titled "Scraps. 1840" on upper cover, worn, folio (425 x 280mm.), [early/mid nineteenth century]
|Album compiled by Welsh antiquarian John Montgomery Traherne (1788-1860), "one of the chief authorities of his time on the genealogies, history, and archaeology of Glamorgan" (ODNB), the contents reflecting the interests (Wales, geology, antiquaries, etc.) of himself and his wife Charlotte, "third daughter of Thomas Mansel Talbot of Margam, who was an antiquary and artist in her own right" (ODNB). Watercolours and sketches include: View of fishing boats (215 x 300mm.) by Calvert R. Jones "from J.D. Harding"; "North West View of Margam" by Charlotte Louisa Traherne, "South Front of Margam from Recollection" (180 x 240mm.); "Dryslwyn Castle" by J.L. Moggridge; "Slackpole Court, Pembrokeshire"; "Westwood - from road between Newport & Chepstow"; "Chesil Beach and Portland Island";, "a picture by Ruysdael at Penrice Castle"; "Persian Lady and her slave... from a drawing by Col. Darcy"; a caricature sketch of "Signior Egidy as Mr. Blunderbore... in Jack the Giant Killer at Dunraven Castle..." signed by Calvert R. Jones; Traherne monument at Southwark Cathedral; "Design for the Victoria Medal, Cardiff Eisteddfod 1834"; annotated pencil view of Culver Hole and cliffs near Swansea; copy of a painting at Lacock Abbey, and "drawing for the hall at Lacock Abbey" (Lacock being the home of the Talbots, owned by Charlotte Louisa Traherne's brother).Printed material includes: a diploma presented to J.M. Traherne by the Royal Society of Antiquaries at Copenhagen; "The Chanticleer. No. 1 London May 28, 1829"; 4-page annotated list of subscribers to the "Monument to the Memory of Mr. Canning"; lithograph of a country girl by R.J. Lane after Queen Victoria (annotated in ink "Sent by the Dutchess of Beaufort to the Swansea Infant School Bazaar, 1834"); "Costume of Glaciers Scratched by T. Sopwith"; "Glacial Theory. The Irregularities of Sol Visited Upon his System..." [by Henry Thomas De la Beche].Miscellaneous materials include: the skin of a "Field Mouse 1785?"; pressed mounted sea weed captioned "Indian Seas. Brought by the late Christopher Traherne 1809"; 4pp. autograph letter (with page of six watercolour views of stone crosses) from Rev. Thomas Rackett of Spetisbury to Traherne (Nov. 1829); transcription of Thomas Moore's poem "To Caroline, Viscountess Valletot. Written at Lacock Abbey, Jan. 1832"; two salt prints, including one captioned in pencil "Uncle Kit [i.e. Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot]. The Orangery, Magram". Provenance: John Montgomery Traherne, bookplate; by descent to the present owner.