Monro School, Album of Monro School Drawings, ca. 1795
- Title:
- Album of Monro School Drawings
- Former Title(s):
- 7 drawings by various hands inserted in an album lettered on front "Drawings by Turner R.A."
- Part Of:
- Date:
- ca. 1795
- Materials & Techniques:
- Album of Seven watercolor drawings by various hands on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper mounted on album pages
- Dimensions:
- Spine: 7 1/8 inches (18.1 cm), Overall: 7 × 10 5/8 inches (17.8 × 27 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite on front endpaper: "1 Wingfield Castle Suffolk | 2 Hedingham Castle Essex | 3 Porchester Castle Hants | 4 Holy Cross Chapel Basingstoke | 5 St. Mary's Colchester --really Margan Abbey, Glam. | 6 | 7 Abbottsbury Abby. Dorset 1834 --really <Abbottsbury> Rowborough Priory, Suffolk | 8 Rowborough Priory Suffolk --really Abbottsbury Abby, Suffolk"
Medallion-shaped bookplate: "Spe Otii Laboro" (Edward Vernon Utterson)
Embossed lettering on cover: "Drawings | by | Turner, R.A."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.3289V
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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