Original watercolours for the images published as engravings in The Costume of Yorkshire'
Description
The original watercolours for the images published as engravings in 'The Costume of Yorkshire' 1814. Bound Volume with the book plate of Thomas Brooke FSA, containing thirty-nine original watercolours by George Walker. The Frontispiece and the watercolour of the grenadier in the First West Yorkshire Militia are not present. The plates are bound into the volume in the following order, identified by the numbers that the pictures were given in the published volume: 4 Dog Breaker 2 Cloth Makers 1 Horse Dealer 8 Fishermen 5 Cloth dresser 7 Stone Beakers 9 Woman Making Oatcakes 10 Ruddle Pit 11 Fool Plough 12 Nor and Spell 13 Cranberry Girl 16 Milk Boy 14 Rape Threshing 15 East Riding or Wolds Wagon 17 Sea Bathing 18 Whalebone Scrapers 19 Farmers 20 Moor Guide 21 Preemer Boy 22 Thirty-Third Regiment 23 Teasel Field 24 Line Swinglers [25 not present] 26 Riding the Stang 27 Peat Cart 28 Cloth Hall 29 Woman Spinning 32 Hawking 33 North York Militia 34 Alum Works 35 East York Militia 36 Midsummer Eve 37 Leech Finders 38 Factory Children 30 Bishop Blaize 31 Wensley Dale Knitters 39 Sheffield Cutler 40 Jockeys
Metadata
| Identifier | nn6977nl |
| IRN | 461854 |
| Class Mark | YAS/MS1000/1 |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/nn6977nl |
| Collection(s) | Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society |
| Category | Archive Art |
| Parent Record | George Walker's The Costume of Yorkshire |
| Date | 1810s |
| Size and Medium | 1 volume |