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Description: Hard cover sketchbook Hudson & Kearns bookmakers, London. Each page has a graphite sketch of architectural details, buildings, statues, landscapes, most dated. First page has -Chas-L-Gibbs-1903-. Sketches are dated from May 31, 1903 to August 30, 1903, and contain sights from Italy, France, Swit…

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Description: Hard cover sketchbook Hudson & Kearns bookmakers, London. Each page has a graphite sketch of architectural details, buildings, statues, landscapes, most dated. First page has -Chas-L-Gibbs-1903-. Sketches are dated from May 31, 1903 to August 30, 1903, and contain sights from Italy, France, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg. Front interior cover contains an inscription, which reads: Service held every year by British colny(?) at Brussels / Mr Brown gives ? ? every ? of June “ Back interior binding has “JL” written in pencil.

Subject: architecture; urban; rural; landscape; Europe; Germany; Italy; France; Switzerland; Belgium; Luxembourg

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Description: A small sketchbook with notes written in ink script and light sketches in pencil. Sketches are mainly of pastoral scenes but some city and boating scenes are within. Some pages have been scribbled over, presumably by a child. In the front of the book is “Wm Cartwright from his sister [??] 1872”.

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Description: A small sketchbook with notes written in ink script and light sketches in pencil. Sketches are mainly of pastoral scenes but some city and boating scenes are within. Some pages have been scribbled over, presumably by a child. In the front of the book is “Wm Cartwright from his sister [??] 1872”.

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Description: Small brown sketchbook with a shiny black, tape-like binding on the spine. Sketchbook contains pencil and watercolour drawings, mostly floral in nature, along with some notes. Was likely used to record embroidery patterns.

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Description: Small brown sketchbook with a shiny black, tape-like binding on the spine. Sketchbook contains pencil and watercolour drawings, mostly floral in nature, along with some notes. Was likely used to record embroidery patterns.