Sketchbooks
Reference code
NEV/01/01
Title
Sketchbooks
Date
1844-71
Level of description
file
Extent and format
3 volumes
Scope and content
Three sketchbooks containing landscapes, architectural and miscellaneous drawings, 1844-71. Pencil, wash, w/col, etc.:- 1. Lake District, first page dated June 1847;- 2. England, including Stamford, and North Wales, 1847-c. 1871;- 3. Mostly Scotland, but including miscellaneous drawings, some by other artists, eg. 'Symptoms of a Pic-nic Hampton May 1844' and a w/col by I.G.Bonney of 'Saxon Arches in Mrs Clements Garden at Reading'. Oblong quarto, dark green spine, with green boards (1); small folio, designed as covers containing pouches of drawing paper (2,3), respectively half leather, brown, with marbled boards, and dark green leather spine, with green boards.
Creator
Nevinson, George Henry (1816-1901), District Registrar of the Probate Court, Leicester
Previous reference number(s)
SAL/MS/911/1/1-3