Pease, Mary W.
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Pease family collection of sketchbooks and exercise books
Collection
Call Number: MSS 6
Abstract:
The collection comprises sketchbooks and exercise books belonging to the Pease family of Durham and Yorkshire Counties, England. The Peases were part of an important network of Quaker industrialists in the northeast of England, and established the nation's first railroad in 1825. Items in the collection date from the early nineteenth to the early twentieth century.
Dates:
1814-1909
Sketchbook: Scotland and Wales, 1870s
Item — 2: Series 1, Folder: 12
Call Number: MSS 6, Series I
Scope and Contents:
Contains graphite and watercolor sketches documenting travels in Scotland, primarily. The subjects of Lady Pease’s work include waterfront views, scenes of rolling hills and vegetation, studies of local residents, and architectural features. Most of the sketches are completed in watercolor. Some pieces depict scenes from Falmouth, Wales, where the Peases had a home called Kerris Vean. Labeled scenes include: Loch Bulig, Mar Lodge, Cluny Lodge Braemar, Behind Lions Face Cluny, Lemorran Creek,...
Dates:
1870s
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- Subject: Scotland -- Pictorial works X
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- Art, Amateur -- Great Britain 1
- Botanical illustrations 1
- Children's art 1
- Education -- Great Britain 1
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- Exercise books (Penmanship) 1
- Graphite drawings 1
- Great Britain -- Pictorial works 1
- Juvenilia 1
- Landscape drawings 1
- Marske-by-the-Sea (England) -- Pictorial works 1
- Quakers -- Great Britain 1
- Railroads -- Great Britain 1
- School notebooks -- Specimens. 1
- Switzerland -- Pictorial works 1
- Travel sketches -- Europe 1
- Travel sketches -- Great Britain 1
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