The Master Collection is one of the hidden gems of Folkestone Museum.
The collection was put together by Thomas Man Bridge (1809 to 1883). Towards the end of this life he lived in Sandgate.
The Master Collection gets its name from Amy Master, who inherited it and later gave it to the museum.
It includes a nationally important collection of Old Master prints and drawings, and two albums of Journey Views. They provide a fascinating insight into a grand tour of Europe by Thomas Man Bridge in the 1830s, when he was a young man.
Master Collection 1: Thomas Man Bridge’s journeys
Master Collection 2: animal studies
Master Collection 3: Dürer’s Melancholy
Master Collection 4: hulks
Master Collection 5: fishing
Master Collection 6: a man drawing another asleep text
Master Collection 7: the expulsion of Heliodorus
Master Collection 8: ‘The Fortune Teller’
Master Collection 9: ‘Panorama of Rome’
Master Collection 10: ‘Mother and Child’
Master Collection 11: Madonna and Child adored by two saints
Master Collection 12: Coal porter and postillion
Master Collection 13: Hercules Slaying the Hydra
Master Collection 14: the artist as illustrator
Master Collection 15: Christ and the fishermen
Master Collection 16: studies of men reading
Master Collection 17: studies of a youth
Master Collection 18: Vesuvius eruptions
Master Collection 19: earthquake
Master Collection 20: drawings from the Roman Arch of Constantine
