Sketchbook album, about 1892
File — Box: 193
Identifier: Subseries 4.2.
Scope and Contents
Folio half black roan, the roan edged with gilding. Brown cloth covered boards. Blue and white endpapers with a foliage and bird pattern. Spine coming away, points very damaged. Drawings in pen and ink and pencil; most highlighted with watercolor. A variety of subjects; everyday people and landscapes/places (some depicting Cairo and Egypt as well as more familiar home sights), fairy subjects and also things copied from books. Inscribed ‘Helen C M Troubridge. A Book of Scraps begun in 1892.’ The majority are fixed but there are 19 unattached drawings and 5 loose pages
Dates
- Creation: about 1892
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Extent
From the File: 175 Linear Feet (213 boxes)
Language of Materials
From the File: English
Repository Details
Part of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Repository