Depicting Derbyshire

Buxton Museum and Art Gallery

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Welcome to Depicting Derbyshire

A place to explore eighteenth-century pictures of the Peak District and Derbyshire. The website brings together works-on-paper of the County from participating museums. The project is run by Buxton Museum and Art Gallery and has been funded by a digital grant from the Paul Mellon Centre.

Take a look at some of the artworks

Featured Artwork

Gentlemen's Bath, Buxton 1807

This sketch, one of seven from the same sketchbook, is attributed to John Claude Nattes. Nattes often drew architectural views and sketched similar scenes of the Crescent in Bath. These sketches are dated 1808. We know he visited Derbyshire in 1798 as his sketchbook from this visit is in the Royal Collection.

 

This is just one of many artworks brought together by the project.

Scroll down to explore different ways of browsing the collection.

Artworks in the Landscape

Use the interactive map to search for pictures by their location.

Open the map of Derbyshire

Derbyshire was arguably the first place in England to be depicted within the frameworks of the picturesque and the sublime. It is hoped that this website will encourage research on these works-on-paper and their wider themes.

Anna Rhodes, Buxton Museum and Art Gallery

Find out how to participate in the project

Keywords

Not sure what you are looking for? Interested in pictures of industry, caves or rivers? You can use the keyword function to identify pictures by themes.

Open the word cloud

Full Collections Search

Here you can search the collections with a free text search. You might want to search using an artist’s name, a date or location.

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