Sketchbook
1873 (made)
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Sketchbook containing designs for furniture, including a design for a fireplace for the artist's house at Fallows Green, Harpenden, and for a shop front for Collinson and Lock, together with plans and elevations of a 'Co-operative Home' and designs for various other buildings including the Parliament House, Cape of Good Hope. Also designs for decorative roundels and a plan of the garden at (?) Fallows Green etc. 76 pages (others missing) of metallic surfaced paper, full-bound in leather, with a pocket in the front cover and a pencil golder.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Metal-point, with some pen and ink on paper |
| Brief description | Sketchbook containing furniture, interior and architectural designs etc. Metal-point and some pen and ink drawings by Edward William Godwin, 1873. 76 pages (others missing) of metallic surfaced paper, full-bound in leather, with a pocket in the front cover and a pencil holder. |
| Physical description | Sketchbook containing designs for furniture, including a design for a fireplace for the artist's house at Fallows Green, Harpenden, and for a shop front for Collinson and Lock, together with plans and elevations of a 'Co-operative Home' and designs for various other buildings including the Parliament House, Cape of Good Hope. Also designs for decorative roundels and a plan of the garden at (?) Fallows Green etc. 76 pages (others missing) of metallic surfaced paper, full-bound in leather, with a pocket in the front cover and a pencil golder. |
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| Credit line | Given by Mr. Edward Godwin, son of the artist |
| Object history | The artist included in a list of his works a design for the Parliament House in Pietermaritzburg, but not for the Town Hall at the Caper of Good Hope. More designs for the Co-operative Home are reproduced on pp.451, 453 of Vol.26 of The Building News, January to June 1874. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1963 . London: HMSO, 1964. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.234-1963 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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