Lot 1516
JOHN PEARSON (1777-1813)
A LARGE FOLIO OF TOPOGRAPHICAL AND LANDSCAPE DRAWINGS
Comprising approximately 60 leaves, subjects to include Yorkshire (Kilton Gill, Ripon, Byland Abbey, Fountains Abbey, Malham Cove, Hackfall, Brough Castle, Gordale Scar, Skipton, York) Wales and the Marches (Shrewsbury, Dolbadarn Castle, Vale of Llangollen, Chepstow, `Pistil Raider` [Pistyll Rhaeadr]), Cumbria (Windermere, Ullswater, Gowbarrow Park, Rydal Water, Derwent Water, Borrowdale), also Stapleton Mill near Bristol, Liverpool, Christchurch, Carisbrooke and elsewhere, principally pen and ink with grey wash, some in pencil, many inscribed, some dated c.1800, various sizes; with a watercolour of Hugh Lloyd's Pulpit on the Cynfael, N.Wales by Francis Nicholson, 1807 (possibly Pearson's master), this badly faded and discoloured (a lot)
The majority 36 x 42cm approx.
* Subjects shown are Lowdore at the head of Derwentwater (1800), S. E. view of the City of Chester taken from Boughton (1801) and Hugh Lloyds' Pulpit (Nicholson, 1807)
