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Title
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Harriet Grote (née Lewin) (1792–1878) Sketch Book of Harriet Lewin
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Description
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Watercolour, wash, pencil and pen and ink c.1810 - c. 1814 MS811/I/19 A day with “bright sunshine” evokes the memory of the battle of Lake Trasimene near the town of Ossaia in Umbria, Italy, between Hannibal’s Carthaginian forces and the Roman army on a summer day in 217 BC. Daughter of Thomas H. Lewin, lieutenant in colonial India, and later wife of MP George Grote, Harriet Lewin, an influential political radical activist in 1830s Britain, notes how landscapes can prompt reflection on historical events, making them part of our own memories. Initial research suggests that human memory is affected differently by certain types of weather.
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Creator
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Harriet Grote (née Lewin)
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Date
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c1810-c1814
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Identifier
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MS811/I/19
A Thousand Words for Weather
