lady bunsen's sketchbooks
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A selection of early 18th century drawings and paintings from the sketchbooks of Frances Bunsen (née Frances Waddington) (1791 – April 1876), or Baroness Bunsen, who was a Welsh painter and author, the wife of Christian Charles Josias Bunsen and the older sister of Lady Llanover. She was born at Dunston Park in Bedfordshire, one of the five daughters of landowner Benjamin Waddington, and later lived at "Tŷ Uchaf", Llanover, Monmouthshire. Her mother was a great niece of Mary Delany. Frances was a talented watercolour painter. Several of her pictures are owned by Newport City Council. In July 1817 she married Baron Bunsen, who later became German ambassador to Britain. After his death in 1860, she published a memoir of his life: A Memoir of Baron Bunsen, Drawn Chiefly from Family Papers, by His Widow, Frances, Baroness Bunsen (1868). A much larger selection of artefacts relating to Lady Bunsen is held in Newport's Reference Library, and are available to view on request.TRANSCRIPT
'Abergavenny Church' by Frances, Baroness Bunsen (watercolour), 1838
'Abercarn' by Frances, Baroness Bunsen (watercolour), 1847
‘Abercarn’ by Frances, Baroness Bunsen (watercolour), 1843
'Hills beyond Crickhowel, Breconsh.' by Frances, Baroness Bunsen, 1808 (sketch)
'Monmouth - Rivers Wye & Monno' by Frances, Baroness Bunsen (watercolour), 1810
'Swansea' by Frances, Baroness Bunsen (watercolour), 1808
'Swansea' by Frances, Baroness Bunsen (watercolour), 1808
'Britton Ferry, Glamorganshire' by Frances, Baroness Bunsen (watercolour), 1808
'Cwm du' by Frances, Baroness Bunsen (watercolour), 1813
'Llandilo road' by Frances, Baroness Bunsen (watercolour), 1806
'Dreslin [Dryslwyn] Castle' by Frances, Baroness Bunsen (watercolour), 1806
'The Castle and Port of Tenby' by Frances, Baroness Bunsen (watercolour), 1806
'St Catherine's Island' by Frances, Baroness Bunsen (watercolour), 1806
'View of Tenby from the North Sands' by Frances, Baroness Bunsen (watercolour), 1806
'Part of the Village of St. Clairs' [St Clears] by Frances, Baroness Bunsen (watercolour), 1806
'Pont Hall, Abercarne' by Frances, Baroness Bunsen (watercolour), 1838
'Pontypool Park' by Frances, Baroness Bunsen (watercolour), 1809
'In Pontypool Park, Monmouthshire' by Frances, Baroness Bunsen (watercolour), 1809
'Pontypool' by Frances, Baroness Bunsen (watercolour), 1809
'Blanafon' [Blaenavon] by Frances, Baroness Bunsen (watercolour), 1813
'Blanafon' [Blaenavon] by Frances, Baroness Bunsen (watercolour), 1813
Waterfall in Clydach Vale, by Frances, Baroness Bunsen (sketch), 1810
'Llanover' by Frances, Baroness Bunsen (watercolour), 1810
'Cardiff' by Frances, Baroness Bunsen (watercolour), early 19th century
'Cardiff Castle' by Frances, Baroness Bunsen (watercolour), 1806
'Cardiff Church & Robert's Tower' by Frances, Baroness Bunsen (watercolour), 1806
'Neath' by Frances, Baroness Bunsen (watercolour), 1808
'Pont Hall, Abercarne' by Frances, Baroness Bunsen (watercolour), 1838
'Abercarne' by Frances, Baroness Bunsen (watercolour), 1838
'Abercarne' by Frances, Baroness Bunsen (watercolour), 1838
'Crickhowel' by Frances, Baroness Bunsen (watercolour), 1838
'Basaleg Church, Tredegar Park, Ebw River' by Frances, Baroness Bunsen (watercolour), 1813
'Tredegar Park, River Ebw' by Frances, Baroness Bunsen (watercolour), 1813
'A bird back excursion' by Frances, Emelia & Augusta Waddington, early 19th century