The Cartwright family of Marnham Hall, Nottinghamshire. A po...

Hammer

£60

The Cartwright family of Marnham Hall, Nottinghamshire. A portfolio of manuscript and other ephemera, early 19th c and later, including Americana: verse addressed to and about George Cartwright (1739/40-1819), British Army officer and later trader-explorer in Newfoundland and Labrador, by his brother John Cartwright (1740-1824), Royal Navy officer, major in the Nottinghamshire militia and political radical, n.d., 11 lines of verse; John Ternouth (1796-1848), sculptor, MS letter, dated 16 Feb:y 1826, presumably in a secretarial, addressed to Miss Cartwright, almost certainly Frances Dorothy Cartwright (1780-1863), JC's niece-adopted daughter and biographer, viz. sculpting a sepulchral monument in memoriam to the aforementioned radical; postal history franked cover addressed to Mrs. H. Strickland (née Mary Cartwright; the daughter, along with Frances, of the Rev. Edmund (1743-1823), JC'S brother), the verso of which is illustrated and inscribed with a spider and manuscript by one of her children; further children's and juvenile drawings, mostly natural history, including cut paperwork, mixed media, principally watercolour; pencil sketch of a country house, further amateur floor plans in pen-and-ink; Photograph of a picture now (1861) in the possession of G. Cartwright Esq:r (son of the younger Ed:d therein represented. The group was designed & arranged by Major John C. brother to Dr C [Rev. Dr Edmund C] and painted by [?]; further ephemera indicative of provenance through Edmund Cartwright's line of descent, early 19th c reverse calf over marbled boards, folio (37 x 23cm)