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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15511, f 18
Title:: View of Torsens House at Whaleire
Scope & Content:: Pen and ink drawing of Torsten Jonsson's house, Hvaleyri. Dwellings and huts, with women working preparing fish. Same view as the watercolour on the following folio, Add MS 15511, f. 19, but with fewer figures, and without colour. Title inscribed in pencil below drawing.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1772
Extent:: 1 drawing

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15511, f 19
Title:: 'View of Torstens House at Hvaleire', drawing by James Miller
Scope & Content:: Watercolour drawing of Torsten Jonsson's house, Hvaleyri. Dwellings and huts, with women working preparing fish and back view of a man riding. Signed: 'James Miller del.' (bottom right). Title inscribed in pencil below drawing.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1772
Extent:: 1 drawing

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15511, f 20r
Title:: Sysselmans House
Scope & Content:: Preparatory pencil sketch of Sysselman's House, with ponies, and areas labelled. Signed: 'J F Miller fecit
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1772
Extent:: 1 drawing

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15511, f 21
Title:: Sysselmans habitations
Scope & Content:: Preparatory pencil sketch of the Sysselman's House, with areas labelled.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1772
Extent:: 1 drawing

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15511, f 22r
Title:: 'The Sysselmans house Hafnefiord', drawing by John Frederick Miller
Scope & Content:: Watercolour drawing of the Sysselman's house, Hafnarfjörður, Iceland. Incomplete, areas left uncoloured. Signed: 'J. F. Miller del. 1772' (bottom left). Title and date on verso.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1772
Extent:: 1 drawing

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15511, f 23r
Title:: 'View of the Sysselmans house near Hafnefiord', drawing by John Cleveley
Scope & Content:: Watercolour drawing of the Sysselman's house, Hafnarfjörður, Iceland. With groups of men, women and children in local dress, a local woman walking with a man in blue wearing a tricorn hat, dogs, cattle and horses. Signed: 'Jno. Cleveley Junr. Delint. 1772' (bottom left). Title inscribed in pen...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1772
Extent:: 1 drawing

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15511, f 23v
Title:: Outline sketch of the Sysselman's House traced on verso of watercolour
Scope & Content:: Pencil sketch of the Sysselman's house, Hafnarfjörður, Iceland. Traced outline of the watercolour drawing on the recto of same folio (mirror image).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1772
Extent:: 1 drawing

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15511, f 25
Title:: View of the inside of an Icelandick house
Scope & Content:: Cross section of the buildings shown in Add MS 15511, f. 24.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1772
Extent:: 1 drawing

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15511, f 26
Title:: Sketch of Skálholt cathedral from a distance
Scope & Content:: Pencil sketch of Skálholt cathedral and surrounding houses. Drawn on a pencil grid, with areas labelled 'road', 'water' and so on. Preparatory sketch for Add MS 15511, f. 27.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1772
Extent:: 1 drawing

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