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.
'A woman in her bridal dress', drawing by John Cleveley
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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...
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.
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.