Cardboard portfolio labelled 'Isaac Taylor (1787-1865)

(a) Drawings (b) Engravings' containing the following:

1.Oil painting (on canvas on wooden mount) 'painted by Isaac Taylor jun. Oct 1806 for Youth Magazine' of 'the setee, an Indian widow, and the body of her dead husband'

2.Oil painting on stiff card mount, of Christ and the woman of Samaria, with the caption 'He whom thou now hast is not thy H[usband]' (John IV v.18)

3. Sheet of paper, cover for 1. and 2., with comments of H.T. on same

4. Mounted print engraved by Isaac Taylor [(1759-1829)] from a Drawing by Isaac Taylor junior,' of the Sacrifice of Jepthah's Daughter taken from The Vocal Works Composed by G.F. Handel vol.I arranged... by Dr J. Clarke (London: Button, Whitaker and Beadnell, 1809).

On back of mount are notes by H.T. on the above print, on both Isaacs, on the design by Isaac Taylor junr. for the frontispiece for 'Saul' in vol.III of the above work with a rough sketch of same, and on other prints appearing in the Vocal Works ...

5. Mounted pencil drawing of a beggar, apparently the preliminary design for an illustration of the poem 'The Old Beggar Man' in an edition of Rhymes for the Nursery (1st published 1806).

On back of mount is a copy of the poem made by H.T.

6. Mounted ink and wash drawing of the burial of Christ marked 'Messiah' and 'The Burial p.336'

7. 4 mounted drawings (on one mount) in pencil, ink and wash entitled 'Worship of the Wise Men', 'Flight into Egypt', 'The Rich Man & Lazarus', 'The Good Samaritan'.

8. 2 sketches on tracing paper, one ink, one pencil (mounted), of 'A Methodist class leader on his death-bed', and folded sheet of paper with further sketches of the class leader and a boat against some rocks [? a wrecking], all sketched [? c.1859] to illustrate reminiscences of Devonshire [? for 'Personal Recollections' in Good Words (London 1864). [See also HD 588/6/163 pp.50-56]

9. Sheet of paper enfolding 8

10. Sheet of paper labelled 'Isaac Taylor 1787-1865 Designs to be sorted' enclosing:

- print of John Wesley [frontispiece to Wesley and Methodism (London 1851) [See HD 588/6/169,170]

- print, a frontispiece 'David Composing the 8th Psalm' [very different from the design illustrating the 8th Psalm in HD 588/6/163 p.103]

- another print of 2 women as in HD 588/6/163 p.137

- [proof] print of frontispiece by Rev Isaac Taylor (1759-1829) for James Thomson's The Seasons (1805) [See also HD 588/4/80]

- print, engraved by J. Chapman from a Drawing by Isaac Taylor (1787-1865) of portrait of unidentified person

- 6 unidentified prints of the following subjects:

--- 3 gentlewomen in a bedchamber

--- a man and woman in a small open boat

--- a lady with 2 children in a garden

--- a wealthy man kneeling before Christ

---an [? African desert scene, showing a man and boy on horseback, and a native village in the distance

--- a boy embracing his mother in a room [? in an inn]

11. Sheet of paper marked 'Frontispieces etc' enclosing:

- 2 further prints as in 6/163 p.74

- another print as in 6/163 p.75

- another print as in 6/163 p.77

- ink sketch of a native on a rocky promontory (palm trees in background) looking at sunrise or sunset over the sea

12. Sheet of paper marked '(a) Miniatures (b) Rough sketches for miniatures' enclosing:

- pencil sketch of a young baby [copy of sketch of Isaac Taylor (1787-1865) by his father in HD 588/4/30]

- pencil sketch of woman beating something in a cloth

- pencil sketch for miniature of unidentified woman

- ink sketch for miniature of unidentified woman

- oval ink sketch for miniature of army officer, in envelope on which H.T. has written, 9 Oct 1908, that this was possibly done at Colchester prior to 1810

13. Ink and colour wash design on ivory (mounted on paper) of Adam and Eve driven out of Paradise, published as No.4 Pt.1 of Boydell's Illustrations of Holy Writ

14. 4 miscellaneous pencil sketches of:

- double cottage at Stanford Rivers

- St Saviours Church, Plymouth Grove, Manchester, taken from the drawing room of a house in Upper Brook Street about 1853

- a boy climbing a tree, directed by a man standing at the foot

- 'cutting open the New Novel'

15. Sheet of pencil notes by H.T. 20 Oct 1912 on the designs by Isaac Taylor (1787-1865) for Beginnings of European Biography and Beginnings of British Biography