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Sketchbook

early 19th century (made)
Artist/Maker
Green, Amos (artist)
Place of origin
England (made)

Sketches (46 on 31 sheets and a frontispiece) of views near Keswick and Ambleside, and one of the bridge at Pontypridd, South Wales. Mounted on brown paper sheets stitched into paper covers.


Object details

Category
Drawings
Object type
Sketchbook
Materials and techniques
Pen, ink and wash
Brief description
Sketckbook of drawings of views by Amos Green.
Physical description
Sketches (46 on 31 sheets and a frontispiece) of views near Keswick and Ambleside, and one of the bridge at Pontypridd, South Wales. Mounted on brown paper sheets stitched into paper covers.
Dimensions
  • Average sheet size height: 26cm
  • Average sheet size width: 18.1cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • This stone designed by a precious hand to denote the subjects contained in the book must now alas! be sacred to the memory of him who traced them and whose latest sketches will be found at the ned. HG: 1807. (Inscribed in ink on the frontispiece of the sketchbook. The inscription is probably by the artist's wife, née Harriet Lister.)
  • Views at Keswick & Ambleside done in the years 18005 & 1806 by Amos Green. (Inscribed on the mount.)
Production
The sketches inscribed variously in ink and pencil with place names and dates.
Bibliographic reference
Hebron, Stephen, Conal Shields and Timothy Wilcox, The Solitude of Mountains. Constable and the Lake District. Grasmere: The Wordsworth Trust, 2006. ISBN 1905256108.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.2964-1948

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Record createdAugust 1, 2006
Record URL
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