Lot 36: Ebenezer Landells (1808-1860) "DILSTON HALL, ONCE

Ebenezer Landells
(1808-1860)
"DILSTON HALL, ONCE THE SEAT OF THE
UNFORTUNATE JAMES, EARL OF
DARWENTWATER (sic) TAKEN A SHORT TIME
AFTER HIS EXECUTION"
signed, inscribed with a poem in copperplate
manuscript and the coat of arms of James
Radcliffe, 3rd Earl of Derwentwater
watercolour, pen and ink
40 x 50cms; 15 3/4 x 19 3/4in.
NB
Landells was an engraver, draughtsman and
illustrator born at Newcastle. He is popularly
believed to have served an apprenticeship with
Thomas Bewick before leaving for London in
1829. However it is more likely that he served his
apprenticeship under former Bewick trainee Isaac
Nicholson.
The unfortunate 3rd Earl of Derwentwater was
hanged in 1716 for his part in the Jacobite
Rebellion and this view of Dilston Hall is based on
the drawing by Hexham artist Thomas Oliver made
on the spot and published as an engraving in
1766, one year after Dilston Hall's demolition.
See illustration