Jacob Larwood illustrated notebook on ancient art and architecture

Item — Box: Individual Manuscripts

Identifier: 2016.arts

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This notebook/sketchbook, dated April 9, 1862, reads like a handwritten draft for a book. The writing is in ink, with illustrations in both ink and vibrant paint. (Some sketches toward the end of the notebook are solely in pencil.) Topics within this notebook include the History of Ornament, Egyptian style (with sketches from papyrus, buildings, vases, jewelry, objets d'art, and "mummy cases"), Assyrian art (with sketches of motifs), Greek art (also motifs), and Pompeian art. The binding of the notebook is pressed cardboard with sewn-in pages.

Dates

1862

Creator

Larwood, Jacob, 1827-1918 (Person)

Extent

1 Files (Housed with Individual manuscripts, Box 2.)

Additional Description

Abstract

This notebook, with an interior note of "by Jacob Larwood," is marked "London, april 9, 1862" and contains 68 pages of handwritten notes and vibrant illustrations about Greek, Egyptian, Assyrian, and other ancient art and architecture motifs.

Biographical Note

If indication on front inside cover is correct, this notebook is the work of Jacob Larwood, an English author/illustrator (1827-1918), whose other works include The History of Signboards: From the Earliest Times to the Present Day (1866) and The Story of the London Parks (1872).