Sutherland Album
1812
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1812
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Sutherland Album is a 1812 by Elizabeth Sutherland, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This album is a mix of sketches, prints, and handwritten poems. It’s a “commonplace book,” where people saved things they wanted to remember. Elizabeth, Countess of Sutherland, made some of the art inside. Her nieces and friend Henry Bunbury also contributed. One page remembers the Duchess of Rutland, who died young. Check out more work by Sutherland, Elizabeth at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
The Sutherland Album is a compilation of watercolors, sketches, and prints by amateur artists connected through family ties, accompanied by handwritten poems and letter extracts. Included are works by Elizabeth, Countess of Sutherland, her nieces Elizabeth Howard and Caroline Howard, and other relatives, alongside a print of Lady Mary Howard and a drawing of Castle Howard. The album’s contents reflect personal connections, with poetry contributed by figures like Georgina, Duchess of Devonshire. Its compilation remains uncertain, though the cover signatures suggest links to the Rutland family…
Read the full account in the museum source.
Elizabeth Sutherland kept a quiet routine: sketching birds at dawn, then pressing leaves between the pages of whatever book she was reading.
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