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Drawings of glass quarrel-panes by Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks

Reference code
FRW
Title
Drawings of glass quarrel-panes by Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks
Date
1842-9
Level of description
Fonds
Extent and format
Paper; ff. v + pp. 1-145 overlapping an ink foliation 12-100 at the reverse end of the volume.
Quarto.
Half leather binding, purple, with marbled boards.
Scope and content
Drawings of glass quarrel-panes, some coloured, by Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks, PSA, for his book Ornamental Glazing Quarries (1849), mounted in a volume containing drawings by others. The drawings by Franks relate to plates 1-112 of the published work; at the reverse end (originally the front) of the volume are drawings by John Morris mainly pencil, of Wymeswold church, Leics., and its furnishings, c. 1843 (see note, fol. iv) and drawings by others, including at least one by A. W. Pugin, 1845 (fol. 22).
Creator
Franks, Augustus Wollaston (1826-1897) Knight, antiquary
Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore (1812-1852), architect and artist
Morris, John (fl 1840s), artist
Previous reference number(s)
SAL/MS/479
Archival history
Note by Ralph Griffin, FSA, fols. ii, iv.