Sketchbook (shipping, inc. the Indiamen 'London', 'Duke of Buccleuch' and 'Robinson' (?))

Red leather spine, marbled boards, back separated, cover with old sticker 'Lot 38' (13 x 17 1/2; paper 12 3/4 x 17). Many pages have been removed but there are 14 remaining leaves with pencil sketches of shipping and it is inscribed in the front 'Sketches by Reinagle'. They include the merchantmen 'London' and 'Duke of Buccleuch' (East Indiaman, of which Reinagle did a lithograph, pub. 1835), and one other, name indecipherable but probably the 'Robinson', all dated 1833, with a drawing of the opening of a sea battle. One drawing is a remarkable bird's eye view looking vertically down on a ship, as from a balloon. This is one of a group of 20 sketch and pocket books, ZBA4132-51, from the studio collection of Clarkson Stanfield RA, acquired in September 2004 (Bagshawe Collection). It was one of only two in the surviving group not by Stanfield and was probably bought by him for the shipping studies in it on Reinagle's death in 1835. (Another, not relevant to NMM and retained by the Bagshawe family, was a sketchbook of cow and other animal studies by Sawrey Gilpin, many in brown or black chalk, which Stanfield presumably acquired similarly as study material.) [PvdM 5.06]

Object Details

ID: ZBA4151
Type: Sketchbook
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Stanfield, Clarkson; Reinagle, George Philip
Date made: circa 1833
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London