Add MS 5238

Architectural and figure drawings by various draughtsmen. Among them are architectural drawings by Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke relating to the design of the Monument to the Great Fire of London. The drawings are executed on paper and pasted on the folios of the album. Summary description of contents:

1. Watercolour drawing of fireworks on the Thames.

2. Sketch of a woman’s head, in chalk.

nn. Engraving of the section view of a building.

3. Watercolour drawing of a detail from a Roman pavement found in the churchyard at Woodchester, Gloucester. Signed and described by ‘R. Bradley, July 31 1722’.

6. Ink and grey wash drawing of a celt. Inscribed: ‘v. C Leigh, Hist. Nat. Lanc.’ (Charles Leigh, History of Lancashire, 1700).

7-11, 13. Sketches in pencil, chalk and pen and ink of various heads and figures on white or blue paper.

12, 16-17, 19-21. Pen and black ink drawings after details from 16th and 17th century Dutch prints.

24-28. An engraving of a nude male figure holding a banner inscribed with the word ‘VIRTUTI’, printed once in black ink and four times in red ink.

32. Sketch of a female figure in pencil and ink, a copy after Albrecht Duerer’s studies of female proportion in his publication Four Books on Human Proportion (Nuremberg, 1532).

40-44. Pencil and pen in ink drawings after religious prints and prints of human heads.

47. Elevation of the Nieuwe Kerk, The Hague, in pen in ink and watercolour. Annotation in pencil: ‘New Church, The Hague, 1649-1656 by Peter Noorwits; elevation N. side, copy’.

48. Pen and brown ink sketch of a hilltop town.

49. Pencil and pen and ink copies of 16th-century artists’ monograms.

50-51. Christopher Wren, pen in ink and wash plan and elevation for a schoolroom in Christ’s Hospital, Newgate.

52-56. Pen and ink and wash plans and elevations of Bedlam Hospital.

57. Pen and ink and wash elevation of a public building.

58. Christopher Wren, Study for plan of St Mary-le-Bow Church, and adjacent buildings.

59. Plan and elevation of Dr Busby’s Church. Annotation in pencil: ‘Plan for church of Willen, Co. Bucks?’.

60. Pen and ink and wash elevation of a public building.

61. Handwritten label for an etching of Pope Clement VII and the Emperor Charles V by Nicolaas Hogenberg, transferred to the Prints & Drawings department of the British Museum in January 1847 (SL,5238.61).

62. Handwritten label for an engraving of the arch of Constantine in Rome attributed to Agostino Veneziano and published by Antonio Salamanca, transferred to the Prints & Drawings department of the British Museum in January 1847 (SL,5238.62).

63. Pencil and grey wash sketch of a portrait of Michiel Adriaenszoon de Ruyter, after a portrait print by Bernard Picart, an impression of which is in the British Museum (1894,0611.68).

64. Portrait of Franciscus Sylvius de le Boë in chalks and grey wash, copied after a portrait print by Cornelis van Dalen, an impression of which is in the British Museum (Bb,4.129).

65. Engraving showing the elevation of a public building, signed ‘Jean Marot fecit’ and inscribed in pen and ink ‘P. Maratta 1677’.

66. Christopher Wren, ink and wash drawing of the elevation of a house.

67. Christopher Wren, ink and wash elevation and plans of St Mary-le-Bow Church.

68. Etching showing the upper part of the Tower of St Rumold, at Mechlin [Mechelen], with lettering in Dutch and Latin. This is possibly only part of a larger etching by Wenzel Hollar showing the elevation of the tower in its entirety.

70. Christopher Wren, Advisory drawing of a statue of Augusta for the termination of the Monument to the Great Fire of London, 1675.

71. Christopher Wren, Advisory drawing of an urn for the termination of the Monument to the Great Fire of London, 1675.

72. Robert Hooke, preliminary design for the statues around the east face of the base of the Monument to theGreat Fire of London, ca. 1671.

73-74. Pen and ink sketches of elevation of an obelisk.

77. Edward Woodroofe, advisory drawing of a gilded ball for the termination of the Monument to the Great Fire of London, 1675.

78. Edward Woodroofe, advisory drawing by of the Monument to The Great Fire of London, depicting the shaft as executed and a hypothetical gilded ball for the termination, 1675

79, 81, 92. Engravings of plans and elevations of buildings at the dockyard in Plymouth.

80. Pen and ink sketch of the elevation and section of the Column of Trajan, in Rome.

82-83. Pen and ink and wash plans of the wharfs on the side of the Thames in London.

84. Pen and ink plan of a large house and gardens.

85. Elevation of a column, with the date 28 April 1680.

86-91, 93. Pen and ink and wash plans, elevations and details of various buildings and architectural features, including plinths.