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Sketchbook

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

Sketchbook containing designs for a memorial, a public building, a fireplace in McLean's studio, for furniture, including a circular table, and decorative motifs, together with sketches of architectural details in the Mile End Road etc. 38 pages (others missing) of metallic surfaced paper, thread-stitched in leather.


Object details

Categories
Architecture
Drawings
Designs
Object type
Sketchbook
Materials and techniques
Metal-point on paper
Metal-Point
Paper
Leather
Drawing
Binding
Brief description
Sketchbook containing designs for a memorial, furniture, decorative motifs etc. and sketches of architectural details in the Mile End Road. Metal-point drawings by Edward William Godwin, 1877. 38 pages (others missing) of metallic surfaced paper, thread-stitched in leather.
Physical description
Sketchbook containing designs for a memorial, a public building, a fireplace in McLean's studio, for furniture, including a circular table, and decorative motifs, together with sketches of architectural details in the Mile End Road etc. 38 pages (others missing) of metallic surfaced paper, thread-stitched in leather.
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 personal notes, comments on an exhibition of paintings and on competition designs for a memorial to Lord Byron, names and addresses etc.)
  • (Dated 29 September 1876 to February 1877)
Credit line
Given by Mr Edward Godwin, son of the artist
Object history
Another design for the circular table shown on p.22 is E.489-1963. The artist is known to have designed a house at Gothenburg in 1876 for J. W. Wilson. A sketch of the design for wall-paper on p.81 is on p.3 of the sketch-book E.247-1963.
Subjects depicted
Memorial
Building
Fireplace
Furnishings
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.242-1963

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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