Sketchbooks
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Books or pads of blank sheets used or intended for sketching, which are informal or rough drawings.
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
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...
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
Charles Robert Leslie Collection
Collection
Call Number: MSS 15
Abstract:
The collection comprises sketchbooks, writings, and correspondence by Charles Robert Leslie (1794-1859) and his family.
Dates:
circa 1812-1900