| Description | The original wrappers survive. The drawings were not numbered.
They are:
— Original paper folder labelled by James Watt jr.as follows:
‘Prints of James Watt for the European Magazine. 1820.’
‘Prints of Courbold’s Drawing , engraved by Adland, of Mr Watt’s statue in Handsworth Church. For Dr Lardner’s Treatise on the Steam Engine. 7th Edn. 1840.’
There is one print of that described for the European Magazine.
— Original paper folder labelled by James Watt jr.as follows:
‘Prints of James Watt from Sir Wm. Beechey’s picture drawn by [blank] engraved by C.F.Wagstaff For Knight’s Gallery of Portraits Vol. 1st. 1833. Under the superintendence of the Society for the diffusion of knowledge.’
There is one print as described above.
— Original paper folder labelled by James Watt jr.as follows:
‘ 50 ¼ Sh[ee]t Impressions of the Print by Finden from Mr Watt’s Bust. Engraved for Arago’s Eloge. 1838. From Mr Queen.’
There are 4 prints; three of a bust in profile, one marked ‘2nd. Proof’, one marked ‘3rd. proof’, and one print of a bust face on.
— Original paper folder labelled by James Watt jr.as follows:
‘Portraits of Mr Watt engraved for Weales Edition of Tredgold on the Steam Engine.’
[There are no prints with this folder].
— Original paper folder labelled by James Watt jr.as follows:
‘Miscellaneous Portraits of James Watt Handsworth Cemetery etc.’
[There are no prints with this folder].
There are four other prints of engravings, as follows :
— Engraving of James Watt, ?by William Darton. 1825.
— Engraving of Francis Chantrey’s statue of the late James Watt drawn by I. Zeitter. n.d.
— Engraving of James Watt. n.d.
(There is a pencil note, not by James Watt jr., ‘Received from Mr H.G. Bohn, 27 Oct. 1846. Published in his Edition of Beckmann’s History of Inventions. Proof before letters, India Paper.’
— Engraving of James Watt. n.d. |