Sketch pad
William John Bankes (1786 - 1855)
Category
Household and miscellaneous
Date
Unknown
Materials
Leather, Paper
Measurements
470 mm (H)325 mm (W)270 mm (H)380 mm (W)
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Kingston Lacy Estate, Dorset
NT 1254198
Summary
Brown marbled paper covered sketch pad enclosed in blue marbled paper with 'Miscellaneous' tooled in gold on a green leather label. With contents (some rough pencil sketches by William Bankes of Corfe and a scene for the Marochetti bronze, also a watercolour of a women fleeing with her children) and further inscriptions (poems by William Bankes). Loose inside a quantity of newspaper cuttings of circa 1880 mainly re gardening.
Marks and inscriptions
O lighthearted Willie .... (WJB poem)
Makers and roles
William John Bankes (1786 - 1855), publisher