Sketches
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Album of sketches produced by the Coventry Sketching Club at `Mr N Troughton`s meeting`, when the subject for illustration was Sir Walter Scott`s "The Fortunes of Nigel".
Item
Identifier: Acc.12796
Dates:
1857.
Letter of Alexander to James Ballantyne describing the last dinner of the writer with Sir Walter Scott.
File
Identifier: Acc.11747
Scope and Contents
Includes manuscript draft and cutting of letter of John Ballantyne on the same dinner with Scott, and a pencil and chalk study of Scott by John Ballantyne.
Dates:
1831 and undated.
Two letters of Thomas Faed.
File
Identifier: Acc.11362
Scope and Contents
One letter is illustrated with a sketch discussing his 1849 painting of Sir Walter Scott and his literary friends at Abbotsford.
Includes a sketch, with key, by John Faed of his picture of Shakespeare and his friends at the Mermaid Tavern.
Dates:
circa 1849-1900.