• Title
  Volume 2: Album of artwork by James Wallis, assembled by his widow, Mary Ann Wallis
• Call number
  PXD 1008/vol 2
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1821-1866
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Textual Records, Drawings, Watercolours
• Reference code
  457718
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Textual Records - 1 manuscript dedication
  Drawings - 16 ink, wash and watercolour drawings
  
• Scope and Content
  1. [Manuscript dedication in the hand of Lt Colonel Alexander Tayler, 1866]. 13.8 x 22 cm.
  2. Cork River before Park was made from Lucyville, 1821 [watercolour]. 23.8 x 36.4 cm.
  3. View of the Park and River Cork from Lucyville, 1847 [watercolour]. 22.6 x 35.1 cm.
  4. Lucyville seat of Major Wallis near Cork, 1847 [watercolour]. 25.1 x 38 cm.
  5. Entrance to Queenstown Harbour & Spike Island [ink wash]. 26.6 x 37.9 cm.
  6. Queenstown Harbour Roman Catholic Chapel and Part of Admiralty House [pen and ink wash]. 25.1 x 45.4 cm.
  7. Muckrus Abbey [ink drawing]. 31 x 22.4 cm.
  8. Muckrus Abbey: Sacred to the memory of Denis Hegarty ..., 1840 [ink wash]. 31 x 22.9 cm.
  9. Round tower at Ardmore Co. Waterford [watercolour and ink]. 27.7 x 39.9 cm.
  10. Isle of Man. View near Ramsey of the Giants Grave [watercolour]. 24.7 x 35.3 cm.
  11. Dunster - Minehead - Bristol Channel [watercolour]. 24.8 x 35.4 cm.
  12. Dunster Castle [watercolour]. 24 x 35.7 cm.
  13. Minehead Somersetshire, August 20 1842 [sepia drawing]. 22.8 x 34.4 cm.
  14. Monument in Minehead Church of Henry De Brackton & statue of Queen Anne, August 3rd, 1842 [sepia drawing]. 26.5 x 36.3 cm.
  15. Porlock Church Somersetshire [sepia drawing]. 18.2 x 27.9 cm.
  16. Valley of Culbone showing the Church near Minehead [sepia drawing]. 26.6 x 36.9 cm.
  17. [Unfinished wash drawing of ships near a coast]. 26.5 x 37.5 cm.
• System of arrangement
  The arrangement of the album is partially reconstructed from a facsimile album accompanying the acquisition, comprising colour photographs mounted on new leaves in the original album binding (PXD 1008/vol 4)
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  The album consists mostly of watercolours and drawings dating from after Wallis's retirement from the army in 1826, and given by Wallis's widow to his nephew, Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Tayler in 1866
  f.2: titled in ink on label, now loose, previously affixed to album page. Signed and dated in ink on portion cut from album page "Major J Wallis 46th Regt. 1821" ("Major" and "46th Regt." appearing to be additions). Grid drawn lightly in pencil throughout view
  f.3: title from label not in the collection, seen affixed to album page in photographic facsimile of album (PXD 1008/vol 4). Signed and dated in ink on portion cut from album page "Sketched in 1847 by Major Wallis 46 Regt." ("46 Regt." appearing to be an addition)
  f.4: titled in ink on label, now loose, previously affixed to album page. Signed and dated in ink on portion cut from album page "Major James Wallis 46th Regt. 1847" ("Major" and "46th Regt." appearing to be additions). Print has transferred onto the reverse of the drawing from the fragment of the Times, January 26 1852, now filed with PXD 1008/vol 4
  f.5: signed "James Wallis" in ink at lower right. Titled in ink on a label with hand-inked rectangular border, previously affixed to album page below drawing, now affixed to a fragment of a later mount. Signed in ink on portion cut from album page "by Major Wallis 46th Regt."
  f.6: signed "James Wallis" in ink at lower right. Titled in ink on a label with ornamental hand-inked border, previously affixed to album page below drawing, now affixed to a fragment of a later mount. Signed in ink on portion cut from album page "by Major Wallis 46th Regt.". Drawing is on two sheets joined with a vertical seam at right
  f.7, Muckrus Abbey, and f.8, Muckrus Abbey [with Denis Hagerty's Monument] originally mounted on same album page, with inscription in ink, now excised from album page: "Muckrus Abbey Both by Major Wallis 46th Regt Killarney" ("Both by Major Wallis 46th Regt." appearing to be an addition)
  f.7: signed in view "J Wallis" at lower left, "James Wallis" at lower right
  f.8: title on label with hand-inked rectangular border, affixed within lower edge of view. Signed "James Wallis 1840" at lower centre in view
  f.9: title from label not in the collection, seen affixed to album page in photographic facsimile of album (PXD 1008/vol 4). Signed in ink on portion cut from album page "Major Wallis 46th Regt.". Signed in view "James Wallis" in ink at lower right. Ink sketch of ruins is pasted onto background
  f.10: title and signature "Major J Wallis 46th Regt." in ink on portion cut from album page
  f.11: titled in ink in view at lower right. Signed in ink on portion cut from album page "Major Wallis 46th Regt."
  f.12: titled and signed in ink "Major J Wallis 46th Regt." on portion cut from album page. Picture varnished; diagonal crease in picture from centre left to top right appears to predate varnish
  f.13: titled, dated and signed "J Wallis 46 Regt" at lower right. Titled in ink on label, now loose, previously affixed to album page below drawing: "Minehead / Somersetshire / Bristol Channell & Welsh Hills". Signed in ink on portion cut from album page: "Major Wallis 46 Regt."
  f.14: title in ink at lower right. Title "Henry de Bractons Monument Minehead Church Somerset" in ink on label with hand-inked rectangular border, previously affixed to album page below drawing, now loose. Signed in ink "Major Wallis 46 Regt." on portion cut out of album page
  f.15: titled and signed in ink "Major J Wallis 46th Regt." on portion cut from album page. Titled "Porlock Church" on portion cut from mat between drawing and album page
  f.16: title and signature "Major J. Wallis. 46 Regt." in ink on two portions cut from album page. Titled "Valley of Culbone" in sepia and signed "James Wallis" in ink in view at lower right
  f.17 is an unfinished wash drawing. It is not seen in the photographic facsimile of the album (PXD 1008/vol 4). It is catalogued with this album because it shares similar dimensions with other drawings in this album. Marks left by dried paste and the lifting of paper from the surface suggests that this leaf may have been used as a backing for another drawing. Paper watermarked "Smith & Allnutt 1838"
  ff.10-12 are varnished
  Digital order no:Album ID : 862011
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  "[?From] my Mothers house near Cork. [?LW]" -- in pencil at upper left, f.2
  "Sacred to the Memory of Denis Hegarty / Who departed this life Decr. 15th 1834 / Aged 90 years / Erected / by his grateful Son Danl. Hegarty Innkeeper / for himself & his direct / Posterity" -- transcription in pencil on f.7 verso, from tombstone inscription legible in view on f.7 recto
• Topic
  Albums
  burial grounds
  castles
  churches
  gardens
  graves
  harbours
  landscapes (views)
  monuments & memorials
  ruins
  sketches
  towns
  watercolours
  
• Place
  England
  Ireland
  Isle of Man
  
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