Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Elizabeth Bellenden Ker sketchbook

Authors

• Ker, Elizabeth Bellenden, active 1823-1867

Call number

Ms. Coll. 825
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9950126543503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/741127583

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Origin

Date

1830-1858

Summary

Oblong red-leather sketchbook containing drawings, chiefly in pencil with some in ink with notes in pencil, of Elizabeth Bellenden Ker's travels through the northern parts of Italy, including Trieste, Turin, and Lake Como, and Switzerland, including Bellizona, Morbegno, and the surrounding region. The sketches include mountainous landscapes, towns and villages, and lakes with surrounding scenery. Some sketches are laid in, but most drawings are pasted in the volume.

Extent

1 volume

Provenance

• Sold by Samuel Gedge Ltd. (Mundesley, England), cat. 10 (2011), no. 10.
   

Subjects topical

• Italy--Pictorial works
• Switzerland--Pictorial works
• Switzerland
• Italy

Genres

• Sketchbooks
• Pictorial works
• Travel sketches
• Illustrated works
• Manuscripts, English
• Illustrated works
• Drawings (visual works)

Licenses

• Text

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