The inscription on the front pastedown describes the work as a 'Scrap of Remembrances' and accordingly, the album is composed of a variety of newspaper clippings, watercolours and various drawings on paper, pasted and assembled on coloured pages. The contents are principally botanical images, la...
Contains ten mounted images, three sketches and several pages of multiple small drawings arranged and pasted. These are principally landscapes and caricatures, including four pencil drawings of the Rhineland region. The album also includes two opening dedicatory poems to an unspecified 'Lady', s...
The volume contains decorative greetings cards from various occasions pasted onto coloured paper as well as a series of stamps depicting scenes from the Yorkshire town of Filey. The majority are Valentine's or Christmas cards, though the contents are not arranged by season and occasions are mixe...
Folder containing: Two floral watercolour paintings on card. Pencil sketch of child pasted onto black backing paper. Photograph of writers H J Massingham, Ralph Hodgson and Sir John Squire, pasted on card. All three are identified and their dates of birth provided on the reverse. A view of Vesuv...
Series of landscapes in pencil of the West Country, including views of Bath, Glastonbury, Torquay and geological formations surrounding Land's End . Sketches from the first half of the volume are dated, spanning July to September. Two pencil inscriptions in flyleaf dating volume to 1832.
Album containing three pasted-in pencil drawings on paper and card, depicting a woman, a church and a pair of cats, and three poems. The first, 'The Pain of Painting,' is signed H.G.H and the last is a transcription of Horatius Bonar's 'The Everlasting Memorial' (1874). All three pieces concern ...
Assortment of watercolours and sketches dating between 1839 and 1841, principally landscapes and equine scenes as well as some portraits and caricatures. Several images are signed, a fair number by "C Hamilton" (principally sketches of horses and knights) and "Thomas Wood" (principally watercolo...
Letters from Henry Bynner sent from the consular office in Trieste. These concern orders, invoices and cost negotiations for shipping and are written in English, German and Italian. Account pages for individuals are included at the rear of the volume.
Report on the trade and navigations of the Port of Trieste, in answer to a set of questions proposed by the Right Honourable Lords of the Committee of His Majesty's Privy Council for Trade. Dated at Trieste September 16 1833
Scope & Content:
A series of responses to questions from the privy council. These concern import figures for the Caribbean and Americas, the export of specific goods including silk and cotton and the suitability of Trieste as a shipping location.
Two lithograph Foreign Office circulars with manuscript signatures: 5 July 1825, signed Joseph Mante Esq., undersigned Thomas Turner Esq. Request on behalf of Secretary Canning to submit weekly returns of prices of corn and grain and details of shipping costs, supply and export legislation. 27 J...