This post features a selection of artwork from the 18th-and 19th-century sketchbooks of two talented, amateur artists that are held in the Archives. Thomas Orde (1746-1807) drew portraits and cartoons of friends, family and society ladies. Henrietta Matilda Crompton (1793-1881) sketched and painted the local landscape on her visits to the country estates of family and friends, and on excursions around Yorkshire and further afield.… Read More North Yorkshire Archive Treasures: Art in the archive