Pen and ink drawings
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Found in 83 Collections and/or Records:
A Midsummer Night's Dream : drawings of a female with arms outstretched , circa 1886-1897
Item — 2: Series 2; Series 4 [39002106195978], Folder: 17a
Call Number: MSS 9 , Series II
Scope and Contents:
Includes three views of same pose, as well as color and detail notes for the costume and hair.
Dates:
circa 1886-1897
Advertisement design for Bioscope Palace , 1970s
Item — 1: Series 1; Series 2; Series 3; Series 4; Series 6; Series 7; Series 8, Folder: 6
Call Number: MSS 14 , Series I
Scope and Contents:
Preliminary colored drawing of a design for a Bioscope Palace advertisement. It states that the Bioscope Palace is the "home of FINE ENTERTAINMENT for ALL the FAMILY."
Dates:
1970s
Advertisement design for Bioscope Palace, 1970s
Item — 1: Series 1; Series 2; Series 3; Series 4; Series 6; Series 7; Series 8, Folder: 7
Call Number: MSS 14 , Series I
Scope and Contents:
Drawn in color, advertisement design for Bioscope Theater. "Coming! Don't Miss It! Limited Engagement Hurry!"
Dates:
1970s
Album, 1827
Item — Vol. 2
Call Number: MSS 16
Scope and Contents:
Inscribed “Drawings by Mary Parker Lady Leighton” on front pastedown. Leighton made the album during an extensive tour of the Rhineland, Switzerland, and northern Italy, in the company of her mother and brother. The journal and drawings of the tour by her brother, John Parker, are at the National Library, Aberystwyth. See: Parry, Edward, "The Revd John Parker: ‘a warm partizan of Gothic art'", Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society, vol. 64, (2020), pp. 90-114.The album...
Dates:
1827
Album, circa 1826-1829
Item — Vol. 3
Call Number: MSS 16
Scope and Contents:
Contains numerous caricatures in pen-and-ink and watercolor; many of these satirize contemporary women’s fashion. Mary’s comic drawings are interspersed with landscapes, copies after Old Masters, and prints clipped from various sources. Among these are twenty-three lithographs from Keller and Füssli’s Collection des costumes de la Suisse (Zurich, n.d.); seven illustrations from an unidentified volume of natural history; satirical prints; an article on the...
Dates:
circa 1826-1829
Album, circa 1826–1854
Item — Vol. 4
Call Number: MSS 16
Scope and Contents:
Inscribed at front: "Mary Parker, 1829." Album reveals Mary’s ongoing interest in comic scenes, picturesque views, and fine art. It includes drawings from key tourist sites, such as Northern Italy’s Lago Maggiore and Switzerland’s Lake Lucerne, as well as a series of copies after works in the British Museum. These drawings occasionally identify the collection from which the artworks come; many are from the bequests of Reverend Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode (1730–1799) and Richard Payne Knight...
Dates:
circa 1826–1854
Album, 1825-1851
Item — Vol. 6
Call Number: MSS 16
Scope and Contents:
Inscribed at front: “Baldwin Leighton, Loton Park, Shrewsbury, Augst. 1846”; but whether this is Mary’s husband or son is uncertain. Though the younger Leighton took the spelling “Baldwyn” in contrast to his father’s “Baldwin,” in his youth he seems to have alternated between the two. The scrapbook again reveals the children’s practice of copying from book and journal illustrations to develop their skills. Included among the drawings are Baldwyn’s awkward copy of the engraving “General Tom...
Dates:
1825-1851
Antony and Cleopatra : drawings of two rooms, in Egypt and Rome, circa 1886-1897
Item — 2: Series 2; Series 4 [39002106195978], Folder: 1e
Call Number: MSS 9 , Series II
Scope and Contents:
Folded sheet includes multiple drawings on both sides. Includes details of a pillar and vases or urns for the banquet to Antony, as well as a male headdress.
Dates:
circa 1886-1897
As You Like It : drawing of costume design for a male, circa 1886-1897
Item — 2: Series 2; Series 4 [39002106195978], Folder: 2b
Call Number: MSS 9 , Series II
Scope and Contents:
Includes notes on the color and design of the costume.
Dates:
circa 1886-1897
As You Like It : drawings of costume design for Orlando, circa 1886-1897
Item — 2: Series 2; Series 4 [39002106195978], Folder: 2a
Call Number: MSS 9 , Series II
Scope and Contents:
Includes notes on the color of the costume.
Dates:
circa 1886-1897
Backhouse and Mounsey collection
Collection
Call Number: MSS 13
Overview:
The collection comprises etchings, lithographs, and drawings by Edward Backhouse, Edward Backhouse Mounsey, and other members of the Backhouse and Mounsey families of Darlington (County Durham) in the early 19th century.
Dates:
1819-1856
Cavalier/17th Century (female) : drawing of a female with a staff, circa 1886-1897
Item — 3: Series 3 [39002106195986], Folder: 13b
Call Number: MSS 9 , Series III
Scope and Contents:
The verso includes detail and color notes likely for another drawing. A "moustache" and "yew hedges" are mentioned, neither of which appear in the drawing.
Dates:
circa 1886-1897
Cavalier/17th Century (female) : drawings of two females in dresses, one on a river bank, circa 1886-1897
Item — 3: Series 3 [39002106195986], Folder: 13a
Call Number: MSS 9 , Series III
Scope and Contents:
Includes detail and color notes for hair, dresses, water, leaves, cloak, etc.
Dates:
circa 1886-1897
Cavalier/17th Century (male) : drawings of a King and another male , circa 1886-1897
Item — 3: Series 3 [39002106195986], Folder: 14a
Call Number: MSS 9 , Series III
Scope and Contents:
Includes detail and color notes on tunics, boots, spurs, belts, hair, cloak, and a table and a chair. The sheet contains a fold across the middle separating the top and bottom sections.
Dates:
circa 1886-1897
Cavalier/17th Century (male) : drawings of two males, one with a sword and one with a stick , circa 1886-1897
Item — 3: Series 3 [39002106195986], Folder: 14b
Call Number: MSS 9 , Series III
Scope and Contents:
Includes detail and color notes on hat, hair, collar, cloak, armor, belt, etc. The sheet contains a fold across the middle separating the right and left sections.
Dates:
circa 1886-1897
Charles Robert Leslie album, 1850
Item — Vol. 2: Series 1
Call Number: MSS 15, Series I
Scope and Contents:
The spine of the volume bears a paper label inscribed: "Sketches by C.R. Leslie, R.A., selected by G.D.L. [i.e. George Dunlop Leslie] '06."The album comprises 103 drawings or groups of drawings by Leslie, all on small sheets affixed to blank leaves in the album. These includes 66 drawings in pen and ink (frequently over graphite) and 37 drawings in graphite; 8 of the drawings include some addition of watercolor.Most drawings are unsigned and without labels. There are a...
Dates:
1850
Charles Robert Leslie sketchbook, circa 1820-1859
Item — Vol. 1: Series 1
Call Number: MSS 15, Series I
Scope and Contents:
Inscribed at front: "C.R. Leslie. No. 8 Buckingham Place, Fitzroy Sq., London, Jany. 1815." The album includes a mixture of texts and drawings. Texts include: "Extracts from Grose's Antiquities, continued from my sketch book dated July 9th, 1813"; "Extracts descriptive of the festivities of May Day"; and various notes on Hall, Browne (his Britannius pastorals), Borlose, Brand (his ...
Dates:
circa 1820-1859
Court jesters : drawing of a jester and three females , circa 1886-1897
Item — 4: Series 4 [39002106195994], Folder: 2e
Call Number: MSS 9 , Series IV
Dates:
circa 1886-1897
Court jesters : drawings of a jester and two males , circa 1886-1897
Item — 4: Series 4 [39002106195994], Folder: 2(d)
Call Number: MSS 9 , Series IV
Scope and Contents:
Includes detail and color notes for the tunic, belt, hose, boots, satchel, etc.
Dates:
circa 1886-1897
Cymbeline : drawings of Imogen in various poses, circa 1886-1897
Item — 2: Series 2; Series 4 [39002106195978], Folder: 6c
Call Number: MSS 9 , Series II
Scope and Contents:
Depicts a female in male costume, presumably Imogen. Includes color notes for the costume and a staff.
Dates:
circa 1886-1897