'The Sysselmans house Hafnefiord', drawing by John Frederick Miller
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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.
'View of the Sysselmans house near Hafnefiord', drawing by John Cleveley
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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...
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.
'View of the cathedral of Skalholt with the houses of the Bishops dependants', drawing by John Cleveley
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Watercolour drawing of Skálholt cathedral and surrounding buildings from a distance. With various figures depicted resting on a hill in the foreground, including a man in a tricorn hat offering a local woman a vessel or box. Signed: 'Jno: Cleveley Junr. Delint. 1772' (bottom left). Title inscr...
'The cathedral church of Skalholt', drawing by John Cleveley
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Watercolour drawing of Skálholt cathedral and surrounding buildings. With men and women in local dress tending cattle in the foreground, and other figures in the distance. Signed: 'Jno: Cleveley Junr. Delint. 1772' (bottom left). Title inscribed in pencil below frame.