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1. Add MS 42000-42047

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Add MS 42000-42047
Title:
BLORE DRAWINGS: architectural and topographical drawings by Edward Blore (1787-1879), architect and antiquary, unsigned and undated (with a very few exceptions), but in many cases made for, or used in, his father's (Thomas Blore's) History of Rutland, i, part ii, 1811; for Surtees's History and Antiquities of Durham, 1816-1840; for his own Monumental Remains of Noble and Eminent Persons, 1826; for Sir Walter Scott's The Provincial Antiquities and Picturesque Scenery of Scotland, 1826; and fo...
Scope & Content:
Edward Blore, architect and artist: Drawings and designs by: 19th cent. Art. Illuminations and Drawings ENGLISH: E. Blore, architectural and other drawings: 19th cent. Architecture: Architectural and topographical drawings by E. Blore: 19th cent. Antiquities: Architectural and topographical d...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
48 items

2. Add MS 42017-42022

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Title:
Vols. XIX-XXIV., , , , , Domestic architecture: drawings of manor houses, etc., chiefly in England.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
6 items

3. Add MS 42000-42007

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Title:
Vols. I-VIII. Ecclesiastical Architecture: drawings of parish churches, monastic remains, etc., in England, Scotland and Wales. At the beginning of Add. MS. 42000, ff. viii-xvi, is a list of the churches classified by their architectural styles.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
8 items

4. Add MS 42033-42046

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Title:
Vols. XXXVI-XLIX. Miscellaneous sketches: drawings of towns, castles, natural scenery, etc., in England and Wales.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
14 items

5. Add MS 42008-42015

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Add MS 42008-42015
Title:
Vols. IX-XVI. Monumental Remains: drawings of tombs, effigies, etc., in England, Scotland, and Wales.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
8 items

6. Add MS 42025-42026

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Title:
Vols. XXVII, XXVIII. Seals: drawings of royal, ecclesiastical, and heraldic seals. Executed for the most part about 1810 and 1812, to which years belong most of the dated watermarks. Quarto.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
2 items

7. Add MS 42030-42032

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Title:
Vols. XXXIII-XXXV. Monumental Remains: drawings of tombs, effigies, etc., as in Add. MSS. 42008-42015, for many of the drawings in which these volumes contain the preliminary rough sketches.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
3 items

8. Add MS 42027-42029

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Add MS 42027-42029
Title:
Vols. XXIX-XXXI [Vol. XXXII was missing when the collection came to the British Museum, but has since come to light and is now in the library of the Royal Institute of British Architects (see Friends of the National Libraries, Annual Report, 1939-1940, pp. 18-19)]. Designs: designs executed by Blore for various clients, either for projected alterations to existing buildings or for entirely new houses.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
3 items

9. Add MS 42047

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Add MS 42047
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Scope & Content:
Vol. L (ff. iii + 57). Designs: for the most part duplicates of, or supplementary to, those in Add. MSS. 42027-42029, and chiefly of Buckingham Palace, executed presumably while Blore was employed as special architect (cf. H. Clifford Smith, Buckingham Palace: Its furniture, decoration, and hist...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 42024

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Scope & Content:
Vol. XXVI (ff. v + 101). Foreign sketches: drawings of ecclesiastical and domestic architecture chiefly in France and the Rhineland. includes: f. 1 Brussels, Belgium: Drawing of the cathedral: 19th cent. ff. 2, 39 City of Paris: Drawings of the church of St Germain Auxerrois, etc.: 1853, n.d. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 item