Beschreibung:

A small archive of watercolours and drawings, approximately sixty-three watercolours and drawings in pencil or pen & ink, on twenty-two folio card or paper sheets, some mounted, mostly to rectos only, of stained glass, wall paintings, and architectural details of churches, some signed, mostly titled, and some with extensive anotations by the artist, a number relating to images of St. Edmund, on conjoined sheets, with a title-page 'Ancient Paintings of St. Edmund In painted glass on Screens etc. In the Eastern Counties by H. Watling, Stonham', sheet size 53.5 x 33cm (21 x 13ins) and smaller, together with a few pencil drawings on tracing paper, all loosely inserted in card folder, spine worn Titles include: 'Screen and Loft, Sheringham, Norfolk'; 'Ruins of an ancient little chapel upon a hill E. of Bures village the evident site of the Coronation of St. Edmund (now used as a cattle shed)'; 'Martyrdom of St. Edmund - A mural painting in the Nave of Stow Bardolph Ch. Norfolk'; 'Ancient Carving of St. Edmund In the possession of a Gentleman at Ipswich. Actual Size. A.D. 1460'; 'St Zita, Shorthampton, Oxon'; 'Curious Mason's Marks from ye Pillars in Coddenham Church'; 'N. Window of Chancel Herringfleet Suffolk'. Antiquary, artist and school master Hamlet Watling devoted much of his life to recording church and other antiquities in his native county of Suffolk. He was prolific in output, and although much of his work was never published, there are holdings in public and private collections. He conducted excavations, contributed to learned societies, compiled twelve manuscript tomes of Suffolk heraldry and genealogy, and wrote lengthy weekly columns in the regional press for over forty years. He also became involved in excavations on Roman sites in Suffolk during the 1860s and 1870s. He helped launch the career of Nina Frances Layard (1853-1935), the pioneering archaeologist of Ipswich who became one of the first female Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London in the early 1920s. (a folder)