Peak District sketchbook

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unitid

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{"value"=>"Pforz BND-MSS (Peak District sketchbook)", "type"=>"local_call"}

unittitle

{"value"=>"Peak District sketchbook"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"1821-1822", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1821/1822"}

physdesc

{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"1 volume (40 leaves, some blank)"}, {"name"=>"physfacet", "value"=>"illustrations"}, {"name"=>"dimensions", "value"=>"14 x 24 cm"}], "supress_display"=>true}

acqinfo

{"source"=>"Bogislav Winner : 8 Sep 2016 : £IIXX.yz"}

scopecontent

{"value"=>"<p>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).</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

date_start

1821

keydate

1821

date_end

1822

date_inclusive_start

1821

date_inclusive_end

1822

extent_statement

1 volume (40 leaves, some blank) : illustrations ; 14 x 24 cm

prefercite

{"value"=>"Peak District sketchbook, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library"}

abstract

{"value"=>" 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).", "generated"=>true}

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