Sous-série 19 - Peter Frederick Anson Drawings

20 items; black ink illustrations on paper

The subseries comprises a collection of ink drawings by Peter Frederick Anson (1889-1975), an English artist and writer. The collection includes illustrations of various religious sites in Ireland, Britain, and Italy. Most of the scenes in Italy have connections with Saint Francis of Assisi and the early Franciscans. The illustrations are mostly in black ink although a few have some additional coloured ink. Most of the drawings are signed (or initialled), and several are dated.

Includes the following captioned drawings:
St. Kevin’s Kitchen, Glendalough, County Wicklow
St. Patrick’s Purgatory, Lough Derg, County Donegal
The Cathedrals in Armagh
Kilclief, County Down ‘where St. Patrick landed in 432 after 20 years’ absence from Ireland’
St. Augustine’s Church, Dungarvan, County Waterford
Raholp Church, County Down
Saul Church, County Down
House of Blessed Bernard of Quintavalle, Assisi, Italy
St. David’s, Pantasaph, North Wales, ‘Novitiate of the English Province of the Friars Minor Capuchin’
Greccio, ‘The Franciscan Bethlehem’
Basilica of St. Anthony, Padua, Italy
Church of San Bonaventura al Palatino, Palatine Hill, Rome
Basilica of Saint Clare, Assisi, Italy
Capuchin Friary, Montepulciano, Tuscany, Italy
San Sebastiano fuori le mura, Rome
Capuchin Church of the Immaculate Conception, Rome
Friary of Monteluco, Spoleto, Italy
Refectory of St. Clare, San Damiano, Assisi, Italy
Grotto of Blessed Bernard of Quintavalle, Assisi, Italy

Some of the pages are torn at the edges while some having staining and discolouration. The drawings were probably originally extant in a sketch book. Only the back cover of the sketch book now remains. Careful handling of the drawings is required.

Born Frederick Charles Anson, Peter Frederick Anson, as he was later known, was the son of Admiral Charles Eustace Anson, a Royal Navy officer. Anson was raised in a family which was historically prominent in the Church of England. At the age of twenty-one, he joined the Anglican Benedictine community on Caldey Island, off the coast of Pembrokeshire in Wales, but converted to Catholicism in 1913. He joined the Third Order of Saint Francis (a religious fraternity of lay preachers who followed the Rule of Saint Francis) in 1922 and took the name Peter. He later enjoyed a prolific career as an author, publishing nearly forty titles, many of them on religious subjects. His deeply held personal faith and his love for all things maritime provided the primary inspiration for much of his artistic work.
For biographical information see https://www.faber.co.uk/author/peter-anson/

For additional biographical information see http://www.moray.gov.uk/museums/anson/biografy.html https://www.scalan.co.uk/lifeofanson.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Anson