Drawings
Algernon Peckover (1803-1893)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1886
Materials
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Peckover House, Cambridgeshire
NT 781367
Summary
Sketch album, blue and tan marbled board, corners and spine in black leather. 'Drawings' on spine. Inscribed in ink on first page 'Sketches by Algernon Peckover', and in pencil '22 April 1881 to 9th June 1886'. Pages numbered 3-122 in top right hand corners. Watercolours generally 5.5in x 8.5in, one per page with title, pasted to album sheet. Includes p18 'Pond at Sibald's Holme 1882', p35 'Woadmill, Parsons Drove 1882', p42 'Woadmill, Parsons Drove 1883', p39 'Mill from Sibald's Holme grounds 1883', pp59-60 'Agave Americana, sibald's Holme 1883', p68 'North Brink Wisbech 1884' (showing hardly any houses), p69 'Sibald's Holme garden 1884', p90 'North Brink Wisbech 1884', p120 'Sibald's Holme'.
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Algernon Peckover (1803-1893)