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Frome created a series of sketchbooks of various formats during his travels. Numbers 1 (Canada) and 4-5 (Mauritius) were missing when the collection came to Cambridge. The RCS sold numbers 2-3 (Australia) to the Art Gallery of South Australia in 1970. Numbers 6-7 and 11 had never been presented to the society. The great majority of the contents of the seven sketchbooks listed below had been removed in London, leaving only a few rough pieces.

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Quarter-plate. Looking north towards the Sierra Nevada.

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Quarter-plate. [Two similar pictures showing pony and trap coming through arch].

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Quarter-plate. [Two similar pictures showing pony and trap coming through arch].

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154 x 193 mm. Showing a car entering South Port Gates, the southern entrance to the town built into Charles V wall. The right hand arch is the original entrance built by the Spanish, with the second gate built by the British in 1883 on the left.

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Collection of loose tinted postcards showing views in Gibraltar.

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64 x 87 mm. Showing part of the exterior of the Cathedral of St. Mary the Crowned.

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247 x 190 mm. Showing cannon emplacements in the rock cavern, tunnelled into the North Face. The caption on the back reads 'Part of the tunnel system drilled in the living rock by British Sappers during the great siege of 1779'.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This is a collection of art work created by the Royal Engineer Edward Charles Frome (1802-1890). In 1929 Frome’s surviving daughter, Mrs Frank Wynne, presented some of the South Australian drawings to the Royal Empire Society through the good offices of Sir Harry Wilson, to whom she bequeathed the rest of the collection. He presented it to the society in 1931. The majority of Frome’s individual watercolours and drawings, varying in size from 250 to 450 mm, were then housed in eight...

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190 x 125 mm print showing the cave filled with artillery, engraved by J. Salmon and G. Presbury, after a drawing by Lt. H.E. Allen.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This is a collection of art work created by the Royal Engineer Edward Charles Frome (1802-1890). In 1929 Frome’s surviving daughter, Mrs Frank Wynne, presented some of the South Australian drawings to the Royal Empire Society through the good offices of Sir Harry Wilson, to whom she bequeathed the rest of the collection. He presented it to the society in 1931. The majority of Frome’s individual watercolours and drawings, varying in size from 250 to 450 mm, were then housed in eight...

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). [Nun with a group of girls].

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The infant class: recreation. [Showing nun and group of girls].

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). Entrance seen from the interior of the cave. [Dark and indistinct].

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154 x 157 mm. Showing a band performing in the 'Cathedral', a large cavern in the cave system.

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Half-plate. (9 min. exposure).

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Frome created a series of sketchbooks of various formats during his travels. Numbers 1 (Canada) and 4-5 (Mauritius) were missing when the collection came to Cambridge. The RCS sold numbers 2-3 (Australia) to the Art Gallery of South Australia in 1970. Numbers 6-7 and 11 had never been presented to the society. The great majority of the contents of the seven sketchbooks listed below had been removed in London, leaving only a few rough pieces.

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177 x 126 mm. A view showing part of the Moorish Castle with the town and harbour below and the Spanish coast in the distance. Painted at sunset.

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198 x 154 mm. Showing the band of the Middlesex Regiment passing in front of the Governor's Residence with spectators in the foreground.

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Quarter-plate. [Showing guard by one of four pillars of porch].

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86 x 65 mm. A view looking over the Docks and the southern part of the harbour with a battleship in the foreground and the South Mole in the distance.

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Quarter-plate (landscape format).

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). [Gibraltar from an anchored steamer with warship in harbour].

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Loose monochrome postcards showing views in Gibraltar. Published by A. Beanland (16), Benzaquen and Co (17-19) and V.B. Cumbo (20-22).

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125 x 166 mm. A view, taken from the Bayside Jetty north of the Old Mole, looking across to the Galleries and gun emplacements with the north face of the Rock beyond.