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Inside The London kalendar: or, Court and city register 1812 (S.90.3).
The coach is facing forwards to the right. It resembles a Mail Phaeton. A phaeton is a four-wheeled carriage that was driven by the owner, and never by his professional coachman. The principal seat is always in front, with a seat for grooms behind.
Left, Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British, A Gentleman driving a four-in-hand to a Mail Phaeton, accompanied by three grooms (Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection).
C18 pamphlets of the 1st Baron Brownlow. His doodles? The first a house, the second, a striped beetle or insect?
S.128.8
Circa 1790s this is probably Lady Frances Brownlow, mother of the 1st Earl. It seems to be a bird's eye view of a garden plan - perhaps.
S.128.7
A collection of harp sonatas has Amelia Hume's inscription within.
Amelia Sophia Hume, Lady Brownlow (1788-1814) has used the marbling on the book's covers to doodle some faces. Inside is her name and the comment Amelia's Song. By Krumpholz, Paris, a Czech composer the author has signed the title page, dating this to pre-1790 the year of his death.
Krumpholz drowned himself in the Seine after his wife, a former pupil Anne-Marie Krumpholtz (1755–1824), also a virtuoso harpist -eloped to London. Hear his music.
Pencilled in on the paste down endpaper upper right is Lord Tyrconnel. He has stuck in his own bookmark. Eleanor's book is now his book through marriage.
Found in L.45.G1, The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England begun in the year 1641.
Eleanor Brownlow, Viscountess Tyrconnel from 1718 (1691-1730)
Youngest daughter of Alice and John Brownlow, she was to marry her cousin, Sir John Brownlow, 5th Bt, in 1712.
Neither her birth nor baptismal records have ever surfaced and so this maybe how she chose to spell her forename, Elianor.
Left, chalk on lined paper, Eleanor Brownlow, Viscountess Tyrconnel by Philippe Mercier (Berlin 1689 - London 1760), c. 1725. A trois crayons (red, black, and white chalk) portrait drawing of Eleanor Brownlow, Viscountess Tyrconnel, head tilted to proper right, hair adorned with flowers, seated in a wheeled chair decorated with a coronet. This is a preparatory study for The Belton Conversation Piece NT 436045, painted between May and July 1726.
After the death of Queen Caroline, wife of George II, in 1737 Mercier lost his royal patronage. He reused Eleanor's sketch as preparatory drawing for A Music Party, (Tate Britain). John Postle Heseltine (1843-1929), London (Lugt 1507-8); sold privately to P. & D. Colnaghi and Co. London, 1912; Sotheby's, Monaco, 2 December 1989, lot 172; private collection, France; Sotheby's, London, 22 March 2005, lot 76; Artcurial, Paris, 9 November 2022, lot. 117; purchased by the National Trust with Monument Trust funding, a fund set up by the late Simon Sainsbury.
Left Mercier's self portrait 1735, from a mezzotint.