Fifteen views made on the her 1850 trip to Normandy.
Hannah Tighe was an Irish Heiress, whose family owned Woodstock, Co Kilkenny. In 1818 she married Lord Patrick Crichton-Stuart (1794-1859), second son of the 1st Marques of Bute. A talented amateur, and diligent pupil, she painted watercolours of the Woodstock estate, Mount Stuart House, and South Wales, where Lord Crichton-Stuart was MP for Cardiff. She made a number of trips on the continent. She made a tours of Italy in 1834, where she took lessons from the young William Leighton Leitch (1804-1883), and Spain in 1852/53.
1. ‘Chateau d’Eu from Garden Gate’. Watercolour. Inscribed and dated, ‘August 4th’. 8x9 inches.
2. ‘Chateau de Falaise Brith Place of William the Conqueror’.
Watercolour.
Inscribed and dated, ‘August 16’ (under the mount).
9x11.5 inches.
3. ‘Bathing Place Granville’.
Watercolour.
Inscribed and dated, ‘August 24’ (under the mount).
11x7.5 inches.
£125.
4. ‘Entrance Gate, Mount St Michel’.
Pencil, brush and Sepia wash.
Inscribed and dated, ‘August 27’.
11x7.5 inches.
5. ‘Mt St Michel’.
Brush and Sepia wash.
Inscribed and dated, ‘August 27’ (under the mount).
11x7.5 inches.
6. ‘Mount St Michel’.
Brush and Sepia wash.
Inscribed and dated, ‘August 27’.
7x11 inches.
7. ‘Dol’ Cathedral.
Watercolour.
Inscribed and dated, ‘August 29th’.
11x7.5 inches.
£60.
8. ‘Dinan’.
Brush and Sepia wash.
Inscribed and dated, ‘Sept. 5’.
14x9.5 inches.
9. ‘Dinan’.
Watercolour.
Inscribed and dated, ‘Sept. 5’.
9.5x7 inches.
10. ‘Chateau de Jopelin’.
Brush and sepia wash.
Inscribed and dated, ‘Sept. 7’.
8x11 inches.
11. ‘Chateau d’Elvin’.
Watercolour.
Inscribed and dated, ‘Sept 8’.
11x7.5 inches.
12. ‘Angers’.
Watercolour.
Inscribed and dated, ‘Sept 12’.
10x7 inches.
13. ‘Saumur’.
Pencil and sepia wash.
Inscribed and dated, ‘Sept 13’.
8x11 inches.
14. ‘Amboise’.
Watercolour.
Inscribed and dated, ‘Sept 17’ (under the mount).
10x13.5 inches.
£95.
15. ‘Amboise’.
Watercolour.
Inscribed and dated, ‘Sept 17’ (under the mount).
10x13.5 inches.
£95.
