- Call number
- Pforz BND-MSS (Peak District sketchbook)
- Physical description
- 1 volume (40 leaves, some blank)
- Preferred Citation
- Peak District sketchbook, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle
- Access to materials
- Restricted access. Request an in-person research appointment.
Sketchbook of drawings by an unidentified artist, recording scenes of the Peak District in Derbyshire as well as country houses and churches in Essex and Hertfordshire. Most drawings are undated; of those with dates, the earliest is September 1821 and the latest is May 1822. Many scenes include the figure of a gentleman with walking stick and hat, sometimes seen with a small geologist's hammer. In one scene ("Cromford Rocks"), he is using the hammer to carve the initials "B C" into a rock. Bound in half red roan over blue-gray boards, paper with the watermark of "[RUSE T]URNERS [18]15." On the front pastedown is a contemporary book label (engraved armorial crest of falcon clutching a sheaf of wheat, above engraved initials "T. [D?]"); on the rear pastedown is another [later?] book label (woodcut of a tree, man in hat reclining underneath, cottage in the background).
Using the collection
Location
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His CircleStephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Third Floor, Room 319