Reference
X69/7
Title
Small folio book, 67 ff.; on front cover "Rudge, Coventry 1822" (Society's no 1) An initial apparently "E"*, has been erased. The watercolour sketches, for the most part are finished, but some are only partly coloured and some are in pencil. The subjects are almost entirely buildings and landscapes; a few figures at end. Watermarked Turkey Mills J Whatman 1820 [By Edw Rudge from Evidence of style & date]
Date free text
1822
Production date
From: 1822 To: 1822
Admin/biog history
Bradford Rudge seems to have come to Bedford about 1835. He was still living in Goldington Road in 1877 (directory). Edward Rudge was a drawing master at Rugby School, 1830 and 1835 (ex inf. Coventry archivist); and Bradford and Lewis (aged 11 and 10) were entered at the school in 1825.
Scope and Content
p.3 Distant view of Coventry.
p.4 Distant view of Coventry.
p.5 Distant view of Coventry.
p.6 Italian villa. 5-14 watermarked 15kg
p.7 "Study of trees in Harbury [Arbury] Park near Nuneaton."
p.8 Kenilworth Abbey gatehouse.
p.9 Kenilworth Abbey gatehouse and parish church.
p.10 Kenilworth Castle
p.11 Kenilworth Castle
p.12 Unidentified parkland.
p.13 "Astley Castle near Harbury [Arbury] Hall".
p.14 Scene in Harbury [Arbury] Park
p.15 "Harbury [Arbury] Hall Newdigates"
p.16 West Street Warwick.
p.17 "Cook Street Gate Coventry"
p.18 "Cook Street Gate Coventry"
p.19 "Swan's Well Gate Coventry"
p.20 "Swan's Well Gate Coventry"
p.21 "Mill Lane Gate, Coventry"
p.22 Chilvers Coton church near Nuneaton.
p.23 Hampton Lucy
p.24 "Parsonage House Hampton Lucy"
p.25 "Hampton Lucy Ford"
p.26 "Hampton Lucy Ford"
p.27 "Charlecote Hall Lucy's"
p.28 "Charlecote Hall Lucy's"
p.29 "Swan's Well Gate Coventry"
p.30 "Charlecote Hall"
p.31 "[Chilvers] coton Church near Nuneaton"
p.32 "Coventry from the Foleshill Road"
p.33 "Cottages at [Chilvers] Coton near Nuneaton"
p.34 "Alscot House West's Esqr."
p.35 "Alscot House West's Esqr."
p.36 "Cottages at Preston near Alscot"
p.37 "Cottage at Preston" [Overleaf: sketches of Guy's Tower, Warwick Castle].
p.38 Distant view of Kenilworth Castle.
p.39 "Coventry from the Coundon Road".
p.40 "Coventry from Foleshill Road".
p.41 "Coventry from Foleshill Road".
p.42 "Crow Castle or Castell Dinas Bran" [nr. Llangollen]
p.43 ? the same
p.44 Unidentified village in ?Wales
p.45 "Bettwy's y Coed"
p.46 "Bettwy's y Coed"
p.47 "Bettwy's y Coed"
p.48 "Llan Berris Church"
p.49 "Llan Berris Church"
p.50 "Inn at Llan Berris. Robt. Closs's".
p.51 "Inn at Llan Berris. Robt. Closs's".
p.52 "Between Pont Aberglasslyn and Tan y Bwlch".
p.53 "Between Pont Aberglasslyn and Tan y Bwlch".
p.54 "Tan y Bwlch"
p.55 "Tan y Bwlch Inn and Maentwrog Vale".
p.56 Wooded landscape [unidentified]
p.57 on Unidentified landscapes, etc.
p.64 Coventry. Badlake Pensioner & Coventry Bellman
Archival history
Originally presented to the Society (then the Bedford Natural History & Archaeological Society) (The numbers are those given by the Society and the order is not chronological).
There is another Rudge sketchbook at Bedford Museum. For list of CONTENTS SEE CRT 180/195
Level of description
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