Restoration Record Book VIII: Pictures/ Sculptures
by or after Sheila Pettit
Category
Ephemera
Date
Unknown
Materials
Paper
Measurements
369 mm (Width); 314 mm (Length)
Place of origin
Cragside
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Cragside, Northumberland
NT 1232773.8
Summary
One of sixteen Restoration Record Books created by Sheila Pettit, former Historic Buildings Representative for the National Trust. A scrapbook with brown leather effect covers and grey pages, with layers of protections between pages. The book contains large black and white photographs of objects loaned to Cragside by the Evelyn De Morgan foundation; “the De Morgan collection in Old Battersea House, London. Pictures and ceramics from the collection now in Cragside. 1979” Each picture is labelled by Sheila Pettit with its location at Cragside [this loan was returned to lender in 2004]. There is also a photograph of the painting ‘After Chevy Chase’ by Herbert Thomas Dicksie, “at the home of Lt. Colonel Gray-Cheape", in its original position in the dining room of Bentley Manor, Redditch, Worcestershire [the painting was donated to Cragside in 1977]. See also 1230718, a copy of this photograph. The book also contains leaflets, and newspaper articles, all to do with the art collection.
Makers and roles
by or after Sheila Pettit, creator