![]() View of Mirables amongst the rocks. Coloured aquatint. 1810-15 Purchased with the assistance of the MLA/V&A Purchase Grant Fund, and with the assistance of the Art Fund. | | Thomas Walmsley (1763-1805) The Mirables estate is situated on the south coast of the Island east of St Catherine's Point. Mrs Heneage put the estate up for sale in 1790 and it was purchased by Mr George Arnold, of Ashby Lodge, Northamptonshire. There are four of Thomas Walmsley prints on display. |
Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg (1740-1812) West Cowes Castle consisted of a round tower with short, single storey, rectangular wings to the east and west, forming a D to the front with a rectangular walled ditch to the back. In 1858 the Royal Yacht Squadron took up residence in Cowes Castle and it now forms part of the clubhouse. | | ![]() Cowes Castle Coloured proof aquatint. 1805 Purchased with the assistance of the MLA/V&A Purchase Grant Fund, and with the assistance of the Art Fund. |
![]() View of Seaview Coloured Sketch. 19th Century | | Artist unknown This early view of Seaview shows the Salterns Cottages. The distant point is Nettlestone Point; by 1862 a Wesleyan Methodist chapel had been built there, which today houses a boatbuilder's workshop, with a yacht club alongside. |
Artist unknown General Sir James Willoughby Gordon was secretary to the noble 'Duke of York' who had ten thousand men. He lived at Northcourt, near Shorwell, Isle of Wight, with his wife Isabella Julia Levina (Bennet), whom he married in 1805. Sir James loved carving and created the large number of carved poppy heads for the original seventeenth century pews of Shorwell church. | | ![]() Sir James Willoughby Gordon (1772 – 1851) Portrait Miniature. Early 19th Century. |
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