Bing, Gertrude, 1892-1964 (historian and director of Warburg Institute)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1892 - 1964
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
File
Notes on Baxandall paper, 1960
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9843/1/10
Scope and Contents
Pencilled notes by Gertrude Bing on a piece written by Michael Baxandall on Renaissance decorum. The notes have been written on the back of a galley-proof of the British Museum Library supplementary catalogue for 1949. Baxandall makes reference to these notes in 'Episodes: A Memorybook' published posthumously in 2010, stating that he has lost the piece to which the notes refer and describing the notes as having something of Bing's voice and eye "for locating the evasive, trick or...
Dates:
1960
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for researchers using Cambridge University Library. Some items of personal correspondence have been closed.
File
'Notes on Painting, Rhetoric, Movement', 1960-1969 (circa 1960-1969)
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9843/8/16
Scope and Contents
Collection of manuscript and typescript notes found in a folder titled 'Notes on Painting, Rhetoric, Movement'. Items include typescript draft text (with annotations) of a paper titled 'Visual Characterisations of Style in Roman Rhetoric'; typescript copy of 'Ad Cosmum Pictorem'; typescript copy of 'Angeli Policiani opusculum: quod Panepistemon inscribitur'; typescript draft text on social dancing (with pencilled annotations almost certainly by Gertrud Bing); and typescript draft (with...
Dates:
1960-1969 (circa 1960-1969)
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for researchers using Cambridge University Library. Some items of personal correspondence have been closed.