Romano-British antiquities; Wells, Winchester, Tintern, Chepstow Castle, etc.

MID/01/10

Romano-British antiquities; Wells, Winchester, Tintern, Chepstow Castle, etc.

1886

item

1 volume
Small black leather bound notebook (“J. Henry Middleton [8] – 709/10”)

Ink and pencil sketches, some with watercolour paint, of domestic and church architecture, as well as museum objects.

Some drawings include measurements and additional notes, written in English and Latin.

Includes two indices which corresponds to the pages Middleton numbered individually and the directional change. The front half of notebook is mostly drawings, while the back half is mostly notes.

Index (1) provided by Middleton has been expanded to include more detail. Notebook includes notes and/or drawings of:
No pp: Notes on publications
pp 1-3: Stow Church, Newport (July 10, 1886)
pp 4: Roman villa, Isle of Wight “found… in 1859”
pp 5: Blank page
pp 6: Wells Cathedral, Wessex
pp 7: “Master Pageney made design for Henry VII’s tomb”
pp 8: Winchester Cathedral
pp 9: Harlech Castle, Wales
pp 10: St Mary’s church, Monmouth
pp 11: Christ’s College, Cambridge; notes on “Blomefield’s Collection Cantal (1750)”
pp 12: St Johns College, Ox. (1886)
pp 13-14: Bath Abbey (July 31, 1886)
pp 15: Sundial, Leckhampton Church
pp 16: Blank page
pp 17-18, 20: All Saint’s Church, Bisley, Gloucestershire (Aug 1886)
pp 19: Blank page
pp 21-24: Chepstow Castle Hall of Keep
pp 24: Badges of pilgrims
pp 25-38: Tintern Abbey
pp 39-42: Lydney Church
pp 43: Ross at Llansawel Church, Wales; Saxon conice of Deerhurst Church
pp 44-52: Durham Abbey and Cathedral (Aug 1886)
pp 53-54: Cyzicus staters, eagles at Delphi, statues of Harmodios, and “Didr. Of Tarentum”
pp 55: Art from National Gallery
pp 56: Ivory draughsman
pp 57: Four wood pillars from Naples (“SKM”)
pp 58: Notes on “picture of H. Morland” and “58 cistercians” for sale
pp 59-61: Arnolfo del Cambro (“Milan Vasari”, “see nbk.22, p.17”)
pp 62-63: Notes on Orcagna
pp 64: Silver work (“Vasari – Milanesi”)
pp 65: Notes on St Dominic and St Francis (“see Bris. Arch Soc. 1878-9 p.232”)
pp 66: Farringdon Church; Radcot Bridge
pp 67-70: Leffington Church “by Berks” (Sept 13, 1886)
pp 71: Town hall, Farringdon; Buscot Church
pp 72: Wayland Smith’s Cave (“near the white horse and Leffington Camp”, “with W. Morris Sept 13, 1886”)
pp. 73: Kelmscott Manor House (Sept 16, 1886)
pp 74-75: Notes on William Morris
pp 76: Notes on art in Venice

Index (2) provided by Middleton has been expanded to include more detail. Notebook includes notes and/or drawings of:
No pp: Notes on publications
pp 1: Objects from Caerleon Museum
pp 2: Roman arches, Bath
pp 3: Roman wall in Caerelon; Chedworth Villa hypocaust
pp 4: Objects from from Caerleon Museum
pp 5-6: Roman baths, Bath
pp 7-8: Prytaneum (“see Frayer in Journ. Of Philosophy, vol. XIV”)
pp 9: Temple of Vesta, Rome
pp 10-11: Doric Temple, Pompeii
pp 11: Prytaneum continued
pp 12-13: Mosaic in Roman villa on hypocaust, Woodchester
pp 14-24: Roman villas, Gloucestershire
pp 25: Three Temples at Suffetula, Algeria
pp 26-31: Notes on text Optics of Greek Architecture (“R.J.B.A. 1876-77 p.101”)
pp 32-36: Notes on Pompeii
pp 37-48: Notes and plans from houses in Pompeii
pp 47: List of paintings in “House of the Tragic Poet” in Pompeii (“see Overbeck and Mau, Pompeii”)
pp 49: “Regina of Dom. Cabrinus”
pp 50-51: Notes on Homer and Recent Archaeology by P. Gardner
pp 52: Miscellaneous notes
pp 53-54: Notes on Optics of Greek Architecture continued
pp 55: Naucratis
pp 56: Blank page
pp 57-50: Notes on Homer and Recent Archaeology continued
pp 60–61: Notes on Petrie’s finds from Egypt, 1886
No pp: Blank page
No pp: Notes on Roman Temple at Holwood Hill, Kent (“Archaeo XXII 336”)

Numbered 16 by Middleton.

Middleton, John Henry (1846-1896), archaeologist and antiquary

SAL/MS/709/1-18
MS 709