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Sketchbook

1872 (made)
Artist/Maker

Sketchbook containing designs for furniture and plate, a sketch design for a hall wall-paper etc., plans and sketches of buildings including a house at Lisieux, Normandy, and drawings of children, animals and plants. 62 pages (some torn, others missing) of metallic surfaced paper, thread-stitched in paper boards.


Object details

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Object type
Materials and techniques
Metalpoint with some pen and ink on paper
Brief description
Sketchbook containing designs for furniture and plate and architectural sketches etc. in metal-point, with some pen and ink, by Edward William Godwin, 1872. 62 pages (some torn, others missing) of metallic surfaced paper, thread-stitched in paper boards.
Physical description
Sketchbook containing designs for furniture and plate, a sketch design for a hall wall-paper etc., plans and sketches of buildings including a house at Lisieux, Normandy, and drawings of children, animals and plants. 62 pages (some torn, others missing) of metallic surfaced paper, thread-stitched in paper boards.
Dimensions
  • Size of volume. height: 15.2cm
  • 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
  • 'E.W.G. [rest obliterated] Arts Club Hanover Square, London.' (Inscribed by the artist inside the back cover)
  • (Inscribed throughout with personal notes and prescriptions, other notes, including a reference to plants wanted for Melbourne Hall, Derbyshire, lists of works for 'The Architect', and details of the cost of the building and maintenance of a lunatic asylum, names and addresses etc.)
  • (Dated 23 June 1872 to 18 October 1872)
Credit line
Given by Mr. Edward Godwin, son of the artist
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1963 . London: HMSO, 1964.
Collection
Accession number
E.232-1963

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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