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Notebook: "Instructions for examining landscape, illustrated by a few drawings": 3674

Object information

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Titles

Notebook: "Instructions for examining landscape, illustrated by a few drawings"

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Gilpin, William

Categories

Description

Twenty pages of wove manuscript paper and thirty-two drawings stuck down on purplish laid paper, which is hook bound; stuck inside the back cover is an envelope with "This envelope contains a letter." written on it in black ink

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1922) by Perceval, Spencer George

Dating

1789 - 1794

Note

There are five blank manuscript pages following the text, and two blank pages following the drawings

School or Style

British

Components of the work

Page Size Height 205 mm Width 285 mm

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: T. Bernard / 6 May 1802
  • Location: Inside front cover, top left
  • Method of creation: Brown ink
  • Text: 432 Gilpin (Rev. Wm., Vicar of Boldre / Hants. 1724-1804, Author of "Remarks on / Forest Scenery, etc.) Insturctions for Examin- / ing Landscape; a clearly written MS. of 19 / pages, illustrated with 32 clever original wash / drawings of landscape, oblong 4to, hf. bound, / £1 17s 6d.
  • Location: Inside front cover, top left, below the above
  • Method of creation: Printed cutting
  • Text: 32 Drawings
  • Location: Inside front cover, top, centre
  • Method of creation: Graphite

Inscription present: name appears on a banner wrapped around a shield bearing a boar

  • Text: William Gilpin
  • Location: Inside front cover, centre
  • Method of creation: Bookplate

Inscription present: the '3' of the date crossed through in black ink, and replaced with a '2'

  • Text: FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM / BEQUEATHED BY / SPENCER GEORGE / PERCEVAL / 1923
  • Location: Inside front cover, centre, below the above
  • Method of creation: Printed label
  • Text: 3674
  • Location: Inside front cover, centre, below the above
  • Method of creation: Graphite
  • Text: GILPIN (W). The various Picturesque Tours of this author / deal largely with the botanical specimens from time to / time noticed. The complete series of his Tours, forming / 11 vols. 8vo, generally bound in 10, early and best editions, / now sell for about £10. The latest editions, 11 vols, in boards, for about £3 13s 6d.
  • Location: Inside front cover, right
  • Method of creation: Printed cutting
  • Text: MM-
  • Location: Inside back cover, top left
  • Method of creation: Graphite

Identification numbers

Accession number: 3674
Primary reference Number: 10705
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 3 August 2020 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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