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Sketchbook

1767 (drawn)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Volume containing numerous pen and pencil sketches of figures and views on the road to Antwerp, including scenes at Calais, and views in Northamptonshire, Crowland, Kelvedon Copse, Peterborough, Wheale, and St. Ives in Huntingdonshire. There are also notes of itineraries, travel expenses and a permit for travel for Farington and Thomas d'Jour to embark at Calais for England. There are 69 leaves. Some have, at some point, been torn out. Inscribed with date and sketchbook number.


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Volume containing pen and pencil sketches
Brief description
Sketchbook by Joseph Farington R.A., containing numerous pen and pencil sketches of figures and views on the road to Antwerp, including scenes at Calais, and views in Northamptonshire. Great Britain, 1767.
Physical description
Volume containing numerous pen and pencil sketches of figures and views on the road to Antwerp, including scenes at Calais, and views in Northamptonshire, Crowland, Kelvedon Copse, Peterborough, Wheale, and St. Ives in Huntingdonshire. There are also notes of itineraries, travel expenses and a permit for travel for Farington and Thomas d'Jour to embark at Calais for England. There are 69 leaves. Some have, at some point, been torn out. Inscribed with date and sketchbook number.
Dimensions
  • Size of volume height: 8.0125in
  • Width: 6.5in
Marks and inscriptions
  • Jos: Farington / de Londini 1767 / Northamptonshire & c / Sketch Book / Number 5 (Inscribed in ink inside the front cover)
  • 1767 (Inscribed on the back)
Credit line
Presented by F. R. Meatyard
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Accession number
P.76-1921

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Record createdFebruary 1, 2011
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