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Sketchbook

1877-1878 (made)
Artist/Maker
Godwin, Edward William (artist)
Place of origin
Britain (made)

Sketchbook containing designs for houses, including part of the interior of 38 Wimpole Street, for The White House, for (?) Yarmouth Town Hall and for a studio for Princess Louise at Kensington Palace. and sketches and plans of renaissance churches etc. Also a sketch design for a table with a shaving glass. 62 pages (others missing) of metallic surfaced paper, thread stitched in paper boards.


Object details

Categories
Drawings
Designs
Architecture
Object type
Sketchbook
Materials and techniques
Metal-point on paper
Metal-Point
Paper
Drawing
Binding
Brief description
Sketchbook containing designs for houses and interiors, including part of the interior of 38 Wimpole Street, for The White House, for (?) Yarmouth Town Hall and for a studio for Princess Louise at Kensington Palace, and sketches and plans of Renaissance churches etc. Metal-point drawings by Edward William Godwin, 1877-1878. 62 pages (others missing) of metallic surfaced paper, thread stitched in paper boards.
Physical description
Sketchbook containing designs for houses, including part of the interior of 38 Wimpole Street, for The White House, for (?) Yarmouth Town Hall and for a studio for Princess Louise at Kensington Palace. and sketches and plans of renaissance churches etc. Also a sketch design for a table with a shaving glass. 62 pages (others missing) of metallic surfaced paper, thread stitched in paper boards.
Dimensions
  • Size of volume height: 14.6cm
  • Size of volume width: 8.3cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1963. London: HMSO, 1964.
Marks and inscriptions
  • (Inscribed by the artist throughout with notes, including a description of the interior of Burges's house in Melbury Road, notes on the Reading Town Hall competition, estimates, names and addresses etc.)
  • (Dated 15 January 1877 to 7 June 1878)
Credit line
Given by Mr Edward Godwin, son of the artist
Subjects depicted
Houses
Town Hall
Churches
Table
Places depicted
Yarmouth
Kensington Palace
Bibliographic reference
Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1963 . London: HMSO, 1964.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.245-1963

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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