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Quarter-plate. [Group in foreground and boats tied up along the beach beyond].

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208 x 154 mm. Showing a donkey hitched to a cart.

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A volume containing 36 architectural and landscape drawings in pencil and related media.

Subjects are:

The Commonwealth Institute, London, 1961-1962 (4 drawings)

West Africa Tour 1968 (8 drawings)

Canada 1969 (19 drawings)

Jamaica 1969 (2 drawings)

Gibraltar 1985 and 1988 (3 drawings)

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Sepia drawing.

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This box contains several drawings of Canada and Mauritius by Frome which formed part of his missing sketchbooks, and engravings by other artists acquired by him. It also includes photographic reproductions of Frome’s five sketches of Kingston, Ontario, which were sold to the Agnes Etherington Art Centre of Queen’s University, Kingston in 1975. These were originally numbers 186, 189-91 and 196 of Album 6 (now RCMS 40/1/6).

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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82 x 123 mm. A view looking up the steps towards the entrance from inside the cave.

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87 x 65 mm. Showing the gates at the north of the town with buses and cars in the foreground and the Moorish Castle on the hill behind the town visible in the background.

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). [Showing wooded area on left with horse and cart on the right and two people walking in the centre].

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). [Showing gateway with three people nearby].

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205 x 155 mm. Showing the cliffs and lighthouse at Europa Point, the southernmost tip of the Peninsula.

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52 x 76 mm. A sketch of a fisherman dressed in blue and holding a rope.

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...

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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178 x 154 mm. Showing two tourists buying flowers at a roadside stall.

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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113 x 177 mm. A view looking out over shipping in Gibraltar Bay from a rock embrasure (opening) in the Galleries.

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Very light outline of a sketch revealing little detail. It is possible that this caption upon the reverse of the sketch may refer to a facing image which is now lost.

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112 x 177 mm. A view looking north from the Galleries towards the cemetery, with the sea in the distance.

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163 x 94 mm. A view looking south from outside the northern section of the town, showing the Moorish Castle on the hillside and part of the town beneath.

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69 x 112 mm. Pen and ink drawing. A view looking out onto a courtyard.

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262 x 202 mm. General view of Gibraltar from the Spanish mainland.

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177 x 126 mm. A view from the Spanish mainland looking across the bay of Gibraltar towards the rock.

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177 x 126 mm. A distant view of the Rock from Spanish soil.