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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15511, f 10
Title:: 'View of a semicircle of Stones on the Banks of Stenhouse Lake in the Island of Pomona', drawing by John Cleveley
Scope & Content:: Watercolour drawing of semicircle of stones at Stenness, Orkney. With genteelly dressed man and woman walking in foreground. Signed: 'John Cleveley Junr. Delint. 1772' (bottom left). Title inscribed in pencil below drawing.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1772
Extent:: 1 drawing

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15511, f 11
Title:: A Plan of the Links or Sandhills near Skail on the Island Pomona, taken from an actual survey by Fred: Herm: Walden
Scope & Content:: Plan of the area around Skail, Orkney, based on a survey by Swedish surveyor Frederick Herman Walden. Linear scale: 'A scale of 2000 feet' (bottom left).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1772
Extent:: 1 map

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15511, f 12
Title:: Warehouses belonging to the King of Denmark. Island
Scope & Content:: Pencil sketch of Danish storehouses where the expedition members stayed, Hafnarfjörður, Iceland. Preparatory sketch for Add MS 15511, f. 13. Title inscribed in pencil at top of sheet. Pencil annotation on folio below sheet: 'See next drawing'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1772
Extent:: 1 drawing

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15511, f 13
Title:: 'View of the Danish storehouses where we liv'd at Haffne fiord', drawing by John Cleveley
Scope & Content:: Watercolour drawing of Danish storehouses where the expedition members stayed, and boats, Haffne fiord (Hafnarfjörður), Iceland. With men, women and children in local dress, and a man using a sextant. Signed: Jno: Cleveley Junr: Delint 1772'. Title inscribed in pencil below the frame.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1772
Extent:: 1 drawing

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15511, f 14r
Title:: Houses near the warehouses
Scope & Content:: Pencil sketch of houses near the warehouses, Iceland, dated 4th September [1772] on verso. Preparatory sketch for Add MS 15511, f. 15.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1772
Extent:: 1 drawing

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15511, f 14v
Title:: Verso annotation on sketch
Scope & Content:: Annotation: 'Island. houses near the warehouses Sepr. 4th'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1772
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15511, f 15
Title:: 'View of Arends House on the edge of Garde Hraun', drawing by John Cleveley
Scope & Content:: Watercolour drawing of huts, with men and women in local dress, including two seated women probably knitting, a pony, and two dogs. Add MS 15511, f. 14r is a preparatory sketch for this drawing. Signed: 'J Cleveley Junr: Delin. 1772.'
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1772
Extent:: 1 drawing

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15511, f 16r
Title:: Torstens House
Scope & Content:: Pencil sketch of Torsten Jonsson's house, Hvaleyri, Iceland. Probably preparatory sketch for Add MS 15511, f. 17. Pencil annotation: 'See next drawing'. Title and date 4th September [1772] on verso.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1772
Extent:: 1 drawing

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15511, f 16v
Title:: Verso annotation on sketch
Scope & Content:: Annotation: 'Torsons house (the man who waited on Mr Banks Sepr. 4th)'
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1772
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15511, f 17
Title:: 'View of Torstens house at Waleyre', drawing by John Cleveley
Scope & Content:: Watercolour drawing of Torsten Jonsson's house, Hvaleyri. Dwellings and huts, with two women and a man preparing fish and another woman with a pony in the foreground, and two others with a pony in the distance Signed: 'Jno. Cleveley Junr. Delin. 1772' (bottom left). Title inscribed in pencil b...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1772
Extent:: 1 drawing

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