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Sir Thomas Gage: Sketchbooks

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8813-8815

Scope and Contents

Topographical and architectural mounted sketches. The bookplate of Sir Thomas Gage is in each album.

Dates

  • Creation: 1807-1811 (Circa)

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

Extent

3 album(s) (3 albums)

Language of Materials

English

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Purchased 1990; Hengrave Hall Deposit, 52, 'Catalogue of books and Manuscripts at Hengrave Hall', 1872, mentions 16 volumes of drawings of the Isle of Wight, Windsor, Bury to Clifton, Wales, the Lakes, Yorkshire, Ireland, etc., 1807-10, of which these albums are probably three; much of the antiquarian, literary, and topographical material collected by the Gage family is contained in the Hengrave Hall deposit; it is unclear when these sketchbooks were separated from the collection and sold.

Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Cambridge University Library Repository

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