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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15512, f 14r
Title:: Icelandic woman's costume
Scope & Content:: Pencil sketch of woman in Icelandic dress, with a Krókfaldur headdress. With pencil notes on the colour and fabric of the garments. Similar to the costume and pose of the drawings of a woman in her bridal dress in Add MS 15512, f. 16 and 17. Detail of the headdress construction on the following ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1772
Extent:: 1 drawing

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15512, f 15r
Title:: Sketch of Icelandic woman's headdress
Scope & Content:: Pencil sketch of Icelandic woman's headdress construction. Annotation on verso: 'Plan of headdress. Svedholt. Octr. 7. 1772'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1772
Extent:: 1 drawing

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15512, f 16
Title:: Sketch of a woman in her bridal dress
Scope & Content:: Pencil sketch of Icelandic woman with a Krókfaldur headdress, with pencil notes about the stockings and shoes. This subject wears the same garments and has a similar pose to the watercolour drawing on the following folio, Add MS 15512, f. 17.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1772
Extent:: 1 drawing

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15512, f 17
Title:: 'A woman in her bridal dress', drawing by John Cleveley
Scope & Content:: Watercolour drawing of Icelandic woman in her bridal dress, with a Krókfaldur headdress. Used for the engraving in William Jackson Hooker, Journal of a tour in Iceland, in the summer of 1809 (1811). The woman is believed to be Sigríður Magnúsdóttir, wife of Ólafur Stephensen, District Governor o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1772
Extent:: 1 drawing

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15512, f 18
Title:: Studies of an Icelandic woman's costume ornaments
Scope & Content:: Pencil sketches of silver and gold costume ornaments, including sleeve, apron, breastplate and neck ornaments, and loops and eyes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1772
Extent:: 1 drawing

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15512, f 19
Title:: Studies of wrought metal ornaments
Scope & Content:: Pencil sketches of wrought metal costume ornaments. With pencil annotations. Studies for the drawings in Add MS 15512, f. 21 and 22.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1772
Extent:: 1 drawing

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15512, f 20
Title:: Studies of wrought metal ornaments
Scope & Content:: Pencil sketch of wrought metal costume ornaments and a pitcher. With pencil annotations and Icelandic names in another hand. Studies for the drawings in Add MS 15512, f. 21 and 22.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1772
Extent:: 1 drawing

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15512, f 21
Title:: 'Icelandick ornaments', drawing by James Miller
Scope & Content:: Drawings of wrought metal ornaments. Signed: 'James Miller Del.' (bottom right). Title and key to drawings inscribed in faded pencil below the frame.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1772
Extent:: 1 drawing

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15512, f 22
Title:: 'Icelandick ornamentals', drawing by James Miller
Scope & Content:: Drawings of pitcher and two ornaments. Signed: 'James Miller Del.' (bottom right). Title and key inscribed below the frame. a. Ale pitcher b. Collar or ornament worn round the neck. c. [Medallion] worn on the breast.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1772
Extent:: 1 drawing

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15512, f 23r
Title:: Studies of men in Icelandic costume
Scope & Content:: Pencil sketches of men in Icelandic costume. Two sheets mounted on one folio. Originally numbered 23 and 24. Sketch labelled 'Poor man of Iceland. Sepr. 4 1772'. With annotations on the garments, and a study of a man's head.Sketch of a man wearing a cap. With another rough sketch of a man.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1772
Extent:: 2 drawings

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