Scope and Contents MS volume, essay by Sir Thomas Gage, An attempt to class the varieties of tulips, annotated in pencil (by Gage?) 'Like most other theories good only upon paper'. With Gage's watercolour paintings of varieties Peter's General Washington (Common cloth of gold), Rayon d'or, Common golden, Bell's King, Indian chief, Golden fan, Common yellow, Pied Gold Bizar, Fringed tortoise shell, Brown tortoise shell, L'étincelle, The Quaker. With printed catalogue (titled in French, English, German and...

Scope and Contents 2 volumes, 50/1 being A catalogue of the library at Hengrave made by Thomas Gage 1812, 50/2 being a catalogue dated 'May 1816'. Catalogues organised into 'Theology', 'History', 'Poetry', 'Natural History and Arts', 'Miscellanies'. 50/1 is annotated (by the 9th Baronet) 'The principal part of the Hengrave library was sold by Sir Thomas Rokewode Gage 8th Bart'. Towards the end the total number of volumes in the library is given as 3537, with note 'Mrs. Maxwells library since added 592 vols'....

Scope and Contents 1 volume, large pencil drawings of architecture, antiquities, landscape, views, one black ink and grey wash, a few pencil heightened with white wash. [1] View of Naples from Villa Patrizii; [2] Port of Naples, with the Castel del Elovo from the Villa Reale ('from a painting by Mr. Morgan'); [3] Vesuvius from Villa Logerot near Saint Elmo; [4] Villa della Canonata on the Posilippo Shore; [5] Arch of the new road and caverns on the Posilippo Shore; [6] Caves on the Posilippo Shore; [7] The...

Scope and Contents Sir Thomas Gage, MS volume, Drawings of English butterflies from real insects with occasional remarks by the author. Vol. I. 1799. The volume is stamped on a front page 'Miss Dalton', and annotated (by her?) in pencil, 'This work was written by Sir Thomas Gage Bart in 1799. The plates are also drawn and coloured by him.' Gage writes 'The greatest part of them are taken from the real insects, which I caught at different times'. Others were copied from Donovan's British insects and Wilkes's...

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Alphabetical index of Latin genera of plants, each with numerical reference to an unnamed work or collection. Stamp of Sir Thomas Gage in front. A few dried and pressed plant specimens

Scope and Contents Short notes taken in a journey to Italy in 1816 with some subsequent remarks and observations. Daily entries, 12 MAY – 2 JUL 1816. With watercolour paintings of landscape, architecture and antiquities. In a subsequent pencil annotation Gage observed 'It is my intention to shorten and change all the first part of this journal it being at present too long and too dull even for myself to read'. Watercolours: [p.18] Ruins of the Cathedral at Cambray; [p.24] [Pen sketch] In the church at St...

Scope and Contents The collection consists of a mixture of family and estate papers relating to the Hengrave Hall estate, owned by the Kitson and Gage families, alongside antiquarian records collected by two members of the Gage family in the early 19th century. There is also a small collection of records relating to the Rookwoods of Coldham Hall, who married into the Gage family in the 19th century. These records have been kept separate to the main series except where it is not possible to tell whether or...

Scope and Contents 'Notes of churches', memoranda of features of churches in Thingoe and Thedwastre hundreds, Suffolk, preparatory for Hengrave 79, Remains of antiquity in the County of Suffolk. Consisting of drawings of old buildings &c in the Hundred of Thingoe, 1813. Gage's watercolour paintings of churches were begun on 18 MAY, but the volumes of memoranda were started on 23 JUL 1813. Written notes and pen and pencil sketches of features and inscriptions. With 2 loose sheets of notes on Pakenham...

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Volume of notes by Sir Thomas Gage, inscribed by his son, Sir Thomas Rokewode Gage, 'This volume of notes was compiled, and written by my father at the age of 19'. Notes 'On Religion'; 'Notes on the economy of nature. By Dr. Gregory'. This was George Gregory, The economy of nature explained and illustrated on the principles of modern philosophy (London, 1796). There was a copy of this book in the Hengrave Hall library, according to the catalogue of 1812 (Hengrave 50)

Scope and Contents [p.10] Ampton Church; [p.13] Details, window tracery, figure of king, coats of arms, etc.; [p.16] Monument, Henry Calthorp, archway to chapel; [p.19] Monuments, William Whelfell, James Calthorpe, Dorothy Calthorpe; [p.24] Old front of Ampton Hall; [pp.35,40] Calthorp coats of arms; [p.45] Effigy of Sir William Calthorp in the Church at Burnham Thorp, Norfolk; [p.50] Richard Calthorp Esqr. And family in Ant- ingham Church, Norfolk; [p.55] Print, portrait of James Calthorp of East Basham, Nor-...

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3 volumes, Remains of antiquity in the County of Suffolk. Consisting of drawings of old buildings &c in the Hundreds of Thingoe and Thedwastre, with an account of their present appearance, and short notes on their former state, with sketches of remarkable monuments and brasses, coats of arms and architectural peculiarities by Sir Thomas Gage, 1813. Gage's notebooks of memoranda about the churches featured in Hengrave 79, 'made on the spot', are Hengrave 28/1-2

Scope and Contents [79/1] Unless noted otherwise, illustrations are by Sir Thomas Gage, and are pen and / or watercolour. Pages renumbered: only pages used are counted. [p.9] MS map of Thingoe Hundred, pen and colour wash, by Robert Rushbrooke; [p.11] Babwell Priory, 25 MAY 1813; [p.18] Barrow Church, 10 MAY 1813; [p.19] In- scription on brass to Edmund Butt (d.1544); [p.21] Ornaments in Barrow Church [Sir Clement Heigham monument, window tracery, 10 MAY [1813]; [p.24] At Barrow Church [piscina, S aisle...

Scope and Contents [p.5] Spear heads of iron found in the tumulus at Barrow Bottom; [p.18] Horningsherth Church; [p.21] Details, window tracery, monument, etc., 26 AUG 1813; [p.22] Details, monuments, brass matrix, low-side window, 26 AUG 1813; [p.25] Horningsherth Church, porch; [p.28] Coats of arms, 26 AUG 1813; [p.39] Ickworth Church; [p.42] Details, windows, niches, piscina; [p.47] Coats of arms; [p.68] Lackford Church; [p.70] Sketch of monument to John Larmouth, 1621; [p.71] Details, window tracery,...

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Topographical and architectural mounted sketches. The bookplate of Sir Thomas Gage is in each album.

Scope and Contents Pencil sketches of architecture, antiquities, landscape, views, 16 MAY – 21 JUN 1816, 16 MAY – 11 OCT 1817, 8 FEB – 18 SEP 1818, 12 MAR 1819 - . With list of sketches to no.57, notes on sketches 1-21, and Short view of the history of Tuscany, to 1111 AD. [1] Ruins of the Cathedral at Cambray; [2] Priory of Saint Marcoul at Corbeny; [3] Church at Vatry; [4] Castle of Salins near Besançon; [5] Bridge at Dombief near Maison Neuve, at the foot of Mount Jura; [6] Mount Jura from the road to...

Scope and Contents 1 volume, large pencil drawings of architecture, antiquities, landscape, views, one black ink and grey wash, a few pencil heightened with white wash. [1] In the Borghese Gardens at Rome; [2] Temple of the Sun and Moon at Rome; [3] Temple of Vesta at Rome with part of the Cloaca Maxima; [4] Villa Patrizij from the Porta Salara; [5] S. Stefano Rotondo the ancient Temple of Claudius; [6] Temple of Apollo on the Palatine Mount; [7] Arch of Drusus. Porta Appia; [8] Church of Ara Celi, part of the...

Scope and Contents Notes on Suffolk families: descents, arms, monumental inscriptions, extracts from parish registers, Archaeologia, Blomfield's Norfolk, Morant's Essex. At the back of Vol. 1: account of 'Sigueira the painter'; pen drawing of brass figure of a woman in Euston Church. In Vol. 2, list of wills in Register Office, Bury St. Edmunds, 'noted 1815 by TG'; inscriptions in family vault at Dalham Church; transcript of notes taken in Denston Church and elsewhere by Craven Ord, 1779; account of life of...

Scope and Contents Sir Thomas Gage, MS volume, The butterflies of Europe with an attempt to describe them according to the system of Ochsenheimer. Annotated in another hand 'This work was begun by Sir Thomas Gage at Naples in 1819. Some of the drawings were finished at Rome a few days before his death in December 1820'. Gage had access to the collection of 'Mr. Mathais Professor of Sculpture at Dresden then residing at Rome', which was later sold to 'the public museum of Rome'. Pen and watercolour wash figures...