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.
Map of Hogedal and Laugafell, Iceland, by Charles Ruotte
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Map of Haukadalur Valley and Laugarfjall, Iceland, marking the geysers and the site of the tent at Geysir. Signed: 'Ch. Ruotte delin. 1774' (bottom left).
Plan of the countrey in the neighbourhood of the boiling fountains
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Map of Haukadalur Valley, and Laugarfjall, Iceland, marking the geysers and the site of the tent at Geysir. A line between points a and b shows the line of cross-section drawn in Add MS 15511, f, 32 and f. 34.
Two cross-sections of Haukadalur Valley, by Charles Ruotte
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Two identical cross-sections of the Haukadalur Valley at the same point, showing the same features, on two separate sheets numbered 32 and 33, mounted onto a single folio. Locations marked include Laugafell, Little Geyser, Geyser and the location of the tent. Each cross-section is signed: 'Ch. Ru...
Section of the Boiling Fountains & country near them on the Line a-b in the Plan
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Cross-section of the Haukadalur Valley. Locations marked include Laugafell, Little Geyser, Geyser and the location of the tent. The line of the cross-section is marked on the map at Add MS 15511, f. 31. Unsigned and undated. Two smaller versions of the cross-section, signed by Charles Ruotte, 177...