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Call Number:
MSS 6
Holdings:
[Request]
Creator:
Pease, Emma Gurney, circa 1830–1895
Title(s):
Sketchbook: Switzerland and Cornwall
Date:
1851-1852
Classification:
Archives and Manuscripts
Series:
Series I: Sketchbooks and drawings
Part of Collection:
1, folder 6
Provenance:
Acquired 2009, Paul Mellon Fund.
Conditions Governing Access:
The materials are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use:
Copyright Undetermined

The collection is the physical property of the Yale Center for British Art. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the Archives Department.
Scope and Content:
Inscribed "Emma G Pease/Southend/Darlington/1851" on flyleaf. Contains sketches, in graphite and watercolor, made during family trips to Switzerland in 1851 and to Cornwall in 1852. Most of the drawings are rough sketches, with touches of white gouache occasionally used to indicate snow on mountains or rushing water. Locations depicted include: Port Maurizio, Lake Como, Martigny, Montreux, Fribourg, Lucerne, Thun, Heidelberg Castle, M. Maggiore, Cornwall, and Colham Lawn (?).
Physical Description:
1 v. (circa 30 p. of drawings) ; 19 x 27 cm. Bound in dark green half roan and marbled boards, from Harrison Penney, stationer, Darlington.
Genre:
Travel sketches, Sketchbooks, Pictorial works, Specimens. , Botanical illustrations, Children's art, Exercise books (Penmanship), Exercise books, Graphite drawings, Juvenilia, Landscape drawings, and Watercolors (paintings)
Subject Terms:
Art, Amateur
Education
Quakers
Railroads
School notebooks
Associated Places:
Cornwall (England : County)
England
Europe
Great Britain
Marske-by-the-Sea (England)
Scotland
Switzerland
Yorkshire (England)
Associated People/Groups:
Gurney, Emma, ca. 1800-1860
Hutton Hall (Guisborough, England)
Pease family
Pease, Edward Lloyd, 1861-1934
Pease, Edward, 1767-1858
Pease, Elizabeth Lucy, 1833-1881
Pease, Emma Gurney, ca. 1830-1895
Pease, Francis Richard, 1844-1865
Pease, Helen Blanche, 1865-1951
Pease, Henry, 1807-1881
Pease, Jane Gurney, 1827-1894
Pease, John Henry, 1836-1854
Pease, Mary Cecelia, 1892-1975
Pease, Mary W.
Pease, Rachel, 1831-1912
Pease, Sarah Charlotte, 1858-1929
Waterhouse, Alfred, 1830-1905
Finding Aid Title:
Pease family collection of sketchbooks and exercise books
Collection PDF:
https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/23.pdf
Archival Object:
https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/3263
Metadata Cloud URL:
https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/3263?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1