Volume entitled 'sketches by Isaac Taylor'

Containing sketches, prints from designs, etc, all apparently by Isaac Taylor (1787-1865), unless otherwise stated.

The contents are as follows:

[The numbers of blank pages are ignored in this list]:

- loose at front: sketch plan of house and grounds of Isaac Taylor at Stanford Rivers, 2 Oct 1854; memorandum by H.T. 'M.A.K. To make an index for this Nov 1913'

- p.1 brief biographical notes by H.T. on four Isaac Taylors, n.d.

- pp. 2-3 sketch, [1787], by Isaac Taylor (1759-1829) of his son Isaac at one day old, with letter (loose) of Rosa Taylor forwarding same to Henry Taylor, 1 May 1890. The letter also forwards 3 designs by Isaac Taylor (1787-1865) including 'a sketch of David' [? the item at p.103] and the original design for 'Betsy Bond' from [Contributions of ] Q.Q.

- p.4 silhouette of Isaac Taylor (1787-1865) taken c.1822

- p.5 print of Rev Isaac Taylor, painted and engraved by Jas. Andrews, published Apr 1832

- p.6 ink and wash design by Isaac Taylor (1729-1859) [? illustrating Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress] with pencil note '22 Drawings by I. Taylor jun. from old Prints of Bunyan's [? Pil] Nov 1805'

- p.7 ticket admitting Isaac Taylor (1787-1865) to Mr Taunton's lectures on anatomy, physiology and surgery, for winter of [1810-] 1811

- pp.8-9 ink sketch of ship in a storm, and pencil drawing of St Michael's Mount, Cornwall [? c.1811-1812 or drawn c.1860-64 to illustrate 'Personal Recollections' for Good Words (London 1864)]

- p.10 [?] hydrotype print of head [? of Nero] labelled 'Engraved by Machine (Pentagraph) invented by Is. Taylor'

- p.11 pencil drawing of two men and a boy with a haywain

- p.12 experimental examples (1 loose) of hydrotype printing (including print of a tree taken from HD 588/6/191 made [? during Isaac Taylor's stay in Devon. See HD 588/7/32]

- p.13 ink diagrammatic drawing of a [? printing] press

- p.14-16 ink and water colour drawings of plants, the two latter marked my [?] H.T. 'water printing'

- p.17 ink sketch of a child running, holding a book [? by Isaac Taylor (1759-1829) with a critical note by himself]

- pp.18-19 original sketch for 'Little Ann and her Mother', with engraving of same as it appeared in the 1st edition of Original Poems (1804). Also (loose) double [?] frontispiece, viz. an engraving of the same subject [? redrawn and re-engraved for a later edition] [see also 5/5 and 6/178] and engraving of a man reading to a family group in a cottage garden

- p.23 ink drawing of ostrich, a design for Signor Topsy Turvy's Wonderful Magic Lantern [? for 'The Feather turned Finery']

- pp.24-25 (loose) 3 ink drawings - of the South Door, church of St Mary Magdalene [?], of a detail of a decorated pillar in same doorway, and of 2 figures in classical dress

- pp.26-27 pencil sketches of Jane Taylor, daughter of Isaac Taylor (1787-1865)

- pp.28-29 proof print of silhouette of Edward Irving, taken 1827, and pencil sketch [? of Irving]

- p.30 sketch of bust of woman in classical dress, labelled by H.T. 'from a coin'

- p.31 pencil and crayon sketch of Elizabeth Ann Taylor aged about 11 or 12, daughter of Isaac Taylor (1787-1865)

- p.33 pencil drawing of remains of a Martello Tower at Walton, [? Suffolk], 23 Aug 1845, and (loose) sketch of tree

- p.35 pencil drawing of Toot Hill Windmill, Stanford Rivers, 'Shattered by Lightning, June 18th 1829. This sketch is sold for the benefit of the sufferer, James Knight, and his family' [See also HD 588/6/181]

- p.36 pencil sketch of head of Robert Hall, and (loose) pamphlet, The Life of Robert Hall (London: The Religious Tract Society, No.1005, n.d.)

- p.37 another sketch as on p.30

- pp.38-39 ink sketch of John Wesley, and [? proof] print of same frontispiece to Wesley and Methodism (1851) with comments on corrections to be made

- pp.40-41 2 pencil sketches of Lord Bacon taken 'from the Monument in S. Michaels Ch: Saint Albans'

- p.42 crayon drawing of a head of a sheep

- p.43 ink sketch of boy at the Mayfield printworks [? c.1850]

- p.44 pencil sketch 'Cedars at Navestock, Essex'

- p.45 pencil sketch of middle-aged man [? a tonsured cleric] with caption 'This will I do I will pull down my Barns and build bigger'. In corner is calculation of printing and publishing costs [?] 'For Decade'

- pp.46-47 pencil sketches of haystack at Navestock, and of trees

- pp50-56 pencil and ink sketches (one coloured) being 'reminiscences of Devonshire life (abt. 1812) sketched abt 1859', including drawings of a Methodist class leader, a man standing on a sea shore, a wreck, a wrecker leading a pack horse and (loose) a very similar drawing with caption 'on my way from the Coast to the London Hotel', 'A Nook in Winter', and 3 sketches (2 loose) of 'Wreckers at Bay'. [See also HD 588/6/164 no.8]

- p.57 pencil sketch of 'Confederate' [? Army Officer of the American Civil War]

- p.59 pencil sketch on tracing paper of wife of Rev Isaac Taylor of Ongar, traced from a painting at Stanford Rivers

- pp.62-67 [? proof] prints of illustrations for the Characters of Theophrastus (1824) labelled 'Illus-trations, drawn on the wood ...'

- pp.68-73 prints illustrations from [? 1820 edition] of Boydell's Illustrations of Holy Writ viz. 'Noah's Sacrifice', the death of Samson, [? Ruth and Naomi], [? Solomon and the queen of Sheba], the destruction of Jerusalem, and Job and his comforters;

(loose) 2 further illustrations for the same work, viz.

'Eve brought to Adam', and unidentified scene of a procession;

also (loose) a print of Moses found among the rushes [from unidentified publication], and pencil and ink drawing of a woman in a chariot drawn by two men

- p.74 print of a man and boy in a wood [see also HD 588/6/164 no.11]

- p.75 print of a man, woman and child walking in a garden with caption 'Well do I remember many words of gentle, but sound advice, given as occasions offered, by an affectionate mother' [see also HD 588/6/164 no.11]

- p.76 print of man reading to family group (as at pp.18-19) [? from Original Poems]

- p.77 print frontispiece designed by Isaac Taylor to Self-Cultivation (1817-18), with caption 'I must now think for myself', C. Heath sculp. Taylor deltpublished 15 Nov 1811

- p.78 ink sketch 'Newton discovering the nature of Light' with (loose) proof prints from partly finished plates of same and the 'Death of Addison', and memorandum indicating that these are designs for Beginnings of British Biography by Rev Isaac Taylor (1824)

p.79 print of anatomical drawings of a jawbone [see also HD 588/6/172]

- pp.82-83 ink sketch of Lavenham church by Rev Isaac Taylor; 3 prints of view of Lavenham Church viz:

(a) published by Rock & Co, London, n.d.

(b) South View, drawn by Josa Kirby, engr. J. Wood, published by Kirby, 25 Mar 1748

(c) (loose) print on title page of The Churchman's Almanack 1895, (S.P.C.K.)

- p.85 (loose) mounted ink and watercolour design marked 'The death of the first born. A design for Boydell's Bible ...' 'given to Henry Taylor by his sister Euphemia May 2 1914' [This is probably a design for No.19 The Plague of Thunder, Hail and Fire for Boydell's Illustrations of Holy Writ. It is not a preliminary design for 'The Death of the First Born' as published]

- p.86 watercolour of house [? at Lavenham, by Rev Isaac Taylor (1759-1829)], and (loose) postcard of Lavenham church, sent by Euphemia Taylor to Henry Taylor 29 Sep 1911, on visiting the former Taylor houses at Lavenham

- p.87 pencil and ink wash drawing of Castle House, Ongar

- p.88 2 copies of print (1 loose) of view of Castle House, Ongar, from the garden of Peaked Farm, Marden Ash, [? del] H. Melville, [? engr.] E. Goodall

- p.89 watercolour by Rev Isaac Taylor (1759-1829) of view from garden of Peaked Farm (similar to prints on p.88), with letter (loose) of Euphemia Taylor to Henry Taylor, 19 Nov 1911 forwarding the sketch and a copy of part of a letter c.1814 from Mrs Isaac Taylor of Ongar to her children describing the sketch; watercolour by Rev Isaac Taylor of view of back of Castle House, Ongar

- p.90 print of Navestock (Ess) churchyard showing woman and child by a child's grave [from a steel engraving made on Isaac Taylor's engraving machine, from a watercolour design by Josiah Gilbert, being the frontispiece to 44th edition of Hymns for Infant Minds (1st published 1810)]

- p.91 2 prints by Isaac Taylor (1730-1807) [? illustrations for Sir Charles Grandison c.1778]

- p.93 (loose) pencil sketch of two gentlemen in a library; 2 pages of notes by H.T. regarding the successive buildings of Ongar chapel, and copy of verse composed by Rev Isaac Taylor on Jane Taylor's grave

- p.101 (loose) pencil sketch of 2 portraits [? of Jane Taylor, daughter of Isaac Taylor of Stanford Rivers]

- p.103 ink and wash sketch 'David the Shepherd' illustrating verses from Psalm 8, with the text inscribed on the back [see 6/164 no.10]

- pp.114-115 (loose) illustrations for Youth's Magazine viz: print 'Ellen breaking the hyacinth, from p.187 of vol for 1827

print 'Life of a Looking Glass' from p.120 of vol for 1817

ink design for 'The Robber's Daughter' which appeared as frontispiece to vol for 1817

mounted ink sketch for 'Ellen breaking the hyacinth' above, and on reverse of mount ink sketch [? also for Youth's Magazine, ? to ilustrate 'Gratitude - the Algerine Captain' in volume for 1817]

ink sketch of a domestic interior and a poor family [? for Youth's Magazine]

- pp.116-117 (loose) mounted ink design for 'Honesty or the Ostiack Boy' for Youth's Magazine 1821, and design for 'The Wise Man', Youth's Magazine 1818

- pp.118-119 (loose) print of illustration for 'The Brothers', Youth's Magazine 1821

- pp.120-121 (loose) print illustrating 'The Wonderful Bird', Youth's Magazine1822

- pp.122-125 (loose) prints 'Juliana presented to her grand-mother' and 'Juliana Introduced to her School Fellows', Youth's Magazine 1823

pp.126-131 (loose) prints 'The Argument Broken', 'The Rapid Journey', 'The Disputation', being illustrations for 'My Uncle Timothy' in Youth's Magazine 1824

- pp.132-133 (loose) print 'Susannah at her Uncle Warners', Youth's Magazine 1825

- pp.134-135 (loose) watercolour [? by Rev Isaac Taylor (1759-1829)] of gentlewoman visiting a poor family in their cottage

- pp.136-137 (loose) ink design of interior of a village shop [illustrating 'A Person of Consequence] for Youth's Magazine 1819; unidentified print of two women in classical or eastern dress before a pillared portico [See also HD 588/4/134 and HD 588/6/164 no.10]

- p.141 (loose) ink sketch [?] of a boy watching a bird in flight

- p.144 (loose) 3 sheets of miscellaneous preliminary pencil sketches of figures, parts of the body, etc