Streatfeild Family.- Streatfeild (Rev. Thomas, antiquarian and churchman, 1777-1778) & Captain Robert Streatfeild (1786-1852) and others [?]. Three albums containing over 62 pp. of sketches and watercolours, c.1810-1815 (3)

Streatfeild Family.- Streatfeild (Rev. Thomas, antiquarian and churchman, 1777-1778) & Captain Robert Streatfeild (1786-1852) and others [?]. Three albums containing over 62 pp. of sketches, 20 in one album executed in watercolour, including landscape studies, many with windmills, several pencil studies of ships, a few seascapes and cloud studies, one album features a loose manuscript note with 8 lines of dates and geographic coordinates with weather conditions described for each day, other various sketches of country houses, and a few sketches of church architectural details and antiquities, pencil and watercolours, some executed in pen and ink, one album with Whatman wove paper with watermark date of '1810', another album with watermark date of '1813', leaves measure between 115 x 180 mm. (4 1/2 x 7 in) and 115 x 185 mm. (4 1/2 x 7 1/4 in), many leaves loose, a few missing with only stubs left, otherwise scattered handling creases, surface dirt and occasional spotting throughout, contemporary boards, worn, 8vo, circa 1810-1815 (3)

Provenance:

Streatfeild Family; by descent;
Anonymous sale. Where acquired by the present owner.

⁂ Three albums from the historic Streatfeild English family from Chiddingstone, Kent, traceable to the early 16th century and a possible cadet branch of the Noble House of Stratford. A number of drawings by Captain Robert Streatfeild were offered at Christie's in 2016, and while these drawings were rather more worked and larger in scale, there are some notable similarities in execution to certain watercolours in the present albums (Sale. Christie's, South Kensington, Old Master Drawings and British Drawings and Watercolours, 7th December 2016, lots 144-150). The British Museum also hold a sketchbook containing 55 leaves of drawings by Rev Thomas Streatfeild (see BM no. 1969,0208.3.1-55).