Castles - England

Date: 1934

From: Crump, Spencely Noel Stanley :Photographs relating to the British Empire Games of 1934 and 1938

Reference: PA1-o-967

Description: Photographs taken during the New Zealand British Empire Games team's journey to Britian on the SS Remuera. Passengers, boat drill and other shipboard activities are recorded. There are pictures of the Panama Canal, and a few of Colon. Though there are photographs of athletes and one or two of the events at the Games, this album is more about socialising and the places visited while in England. Swimming pools are prety well covered including the Kingfisher's Pool in Epping Forest where the New Zealand swimmers trained, and the big new covered Empire Swimming Pool in London. Views from their London hotel, Wimbeldon, and a visit to Eton College where they were looked after by school boys in top hats and tails. While visiting Croydon Airport they took a flight over the outer suburbs of London in a multi engined air liner. They saw Windsor Castle, the trooping of the colour, and visited Chester Cathedral. After the games, they travelled home with the Australian team on the Ormonde via Suez, Colombo, and Sydney Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1840 - 1869

From: Various artists :[Eleven British and American etchings and woodcuts. 1800s-1900s]

By: Leighton Brothers (Firm)

Reference: A-097-047

Description: Shows an illustration of two men in the left foreground, looking from an upper storey down through an archway into the large roofless interior of a castle, with columns and rounded arches at the far side. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Coloured woodcut, 248 x 174 mm, on sheet 350 x 253 mm. Transfers: Other material of the same provenance is housed at MS-Papers-9109.

Date: 1835

From: Turner, Joseph Mallord William, 1775-1851 :[Turner's illustrations to Milton]. London, John Macrone, 1835

By: Turner, Joseph Mallord William, 1775-1851; Goodall, Edward, 1795-1870

Reference: B-098-022

Description: Illustration to Milton's Comus showing a moonlit castle in the background with a group of nymphs with lights emerging from the water in the foreground Proof before titling for illustration to The poetical works of John Milton edited by Sir Egerton Brydges (London, 1835). See REng / MIL / 1835 / Poet. Extended Title - From: The poetical works of John Milton / edited by Sir Egerton Brydges Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, black & white, on proof-sheet 213 x 142 mm; plate-mark 216 x 149 on wove paper, 434 x 300 mm

Date: 1889 - 1891

By: Hyde, William, active 1889-1891

Reference: A-131-007

Description: The castle viewed from the above the town, looking east. The town is in a valley below, with the castle strongly moonlit in the middle distance. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - W. Hyde. Also title on verso in pencil Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and monochrome wash on paper glued to strawboard 157 x 254 mm

Date: 1928

From: Living, John Frederick, d 1978 :Photographs of the South Seas Exhibition and holidays

Reference: PA1-o-1057

Description: Commercial photographs and postcards collected on a trip to England in 1928. They include Perth Western Australia, the Suez Canal, Port said and Cairo in Egypt, Naples and Pompei in Italy, Toulon and Paris in France as well as a group showing the interiors of the Royal Palace at Fontainebleau, Windsor Castle, St Albans, Stratford on Avon, and Oxford in England. There is a photograph of the liner "Osterly", and others showing its first class public rooms. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1875

From: Richmond, Christopher William, 1821-1895 :Sketch book ; sketches numbered 1 to 74 [i.e. 95] / [by] C W Richmond.

Reference: E-284-079

Description: A view of a town from the water. Shows a castle on a hilltop and a large town below, possibly Dover Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 141 x 225 mm

Date: 1808

By: Mantell, Gideon Algernon, 1790-1852

Reference: B-063-008

Description: Distant view of an English castle Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 356 x 235 mm

Date: 1870 - 1879

From: Richmond, Christopher William, 1821-1895 :Sketch book ; sketches numbered 1 to 74 [i.e. 95] / [by] C W Richmond.

Reference: E-284-036

Description: A front view of Bodiam Castle, England Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 110 x 102 mm

Date: 1923

From: Haylock, Arthur Lagden 1860-1948 :[Sketchbooks]

Reference: E-292-q-5-027

Description: Norman castle or tower with railing surrounding it. Behind it and to the right are trees Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Title Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing 140 x 215 mm

Date: 1865 - 1888

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketch book

Reference: E-346-2-065

Description: View from the English Channel looking towards the white cliffs and Dover Castle. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on 2 sketchbook pages, 129 x 356 mm

Date: 1850 - 1868

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; Wilkie, John Campbell, 1899-1977

Reference: WC-150

Description: View of a castle on a hill with cows grazing below. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 243 x 352 mm

Date: 1778

By: Hearne, Thomas, 1744-1817; Rooker, Michael Angelo, 1743-1801; Byrne, William, 1743-1805; Redman, William Edward (Dr), -1940

Reference: A-267-009

Description: A view from below a partially ruined castle, looking up towards it. Ivy grows up one face and a family is seated at the entrance to the drawbridge. Dedicated to the Lady Beaumont ... by her Ladyship's most obedient servants Thomas Hearne and William Byrne Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 182 x 252 mm

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :Scrapbook. 1840-1872.

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: C-103-061-3

Description: Coastal scene, with a rowboat on a trailer, the tower of a castle in the background Text below work is illegible Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 84 x 128 mm

Date: 1928

From: Living, John Frederick, d 1978 :Photographs of the South Seas Exhibition and holidays

Reference: PA1-o-1055

Description: Trip to England; from Toulon and Gibraltar to England. There are images of groups of friends and then trips from London to Oxford, St Albans, Kenilworth, and Guildford which included villages such as Chalfont St Giles and Nuneham Courtney. Others record a walking tour through the Buckinghamshire countryside between Chenies and Rickmansworth which took in a stately home at Moor Park. Stratford on Avon and Canterbury complete the English section of this album, after which the photographer visited Paris, France Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1910 - 1919

By: Howarth, Albany E, active 1906; Fleck, Henry Baxter, 1905-1971

Reference: B-106-009

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching 167 x 210 mm

Date: 1932-1933

From: Castle family :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1615

Description: Includes photographs of Kensington gardens; Hampton Court; Trinity College, Oxford; Kew gardens; Wilson's at Berkhamsted; Dog cemetery at Hyde Park; Box Hill in Surrey; Davis Cup matches between Australia and England in 1933; Virginia Water; buildings and castles in Warwick and Kenilworth; William Shakespeare's birth place, Stratford-on-Avon; Fire brigade display in Chelsea; Zillah and Mavis on ship (possibly their return voyage in 1934) In 1931 Zillah Castle received a violin scholarship to the Royal College of Music, London, where she went chaperoned by Mavis, her eldest sister. They returned in 1934. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 19.5 x 28 cm

Date: 1852 - 1872

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: WC-141

Description: Looking down over a rural landscape. Goodrich Castle is not visible in teh view Other Titles - Goodrich Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink & watercolour 256 x 392 mm

Date: 1816 - 1820

From: Taylor, Richard, 1805-1873 :Richard Taylor, the gift of his Father. 1816-1824, 1832, 1849.

Reference: E-383-007

Description: Shows a castle in Kent, England, surrounded by a wall with an armed guard outside Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - title in the hand of the artist Richard Taylor's father was also Richard Taylor. Quantity: 1 drawing(s) on album page. Physical Description: Pencil on page, 168 x 203 mm

Date: 1816 - 1820

From: Taylor, Richard, 1805-1873 :Richard Taylor, the gift of his Father. 1816-1824, 1832, 1849.

Reference: E-383-001

Description: Shows Oxford Castle and area surrounding it Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - title in the hand of the artist Richard Taylor's father was also Richard Taylor. Quantity: 1 drawing(s) on album page. Physical Description: Pencil on page, 168 x 203 mm

Date: 1875

From: Richmond, Christopher William, 1821-1895 :Sketch book ; sketches numbered 1 to 74 [i.e. 95] / [by] C W Richmond.

Reference: E-284-033

Description: Looking up at a large mediaeval English castle Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 70 x 83 mm