Pease, Emma Gurney, circa 1830–1895, Sketchbook: Switzerland and Cornwall, 1851-1852
- 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 UndeterminedThe 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, AmateurEducationQuakersRailroadsSchool notebooks
- Associated Places:
- Cornwall (England : County)EnglandEuropeGreat BritainMarske-by-the-Sea (England)ScotlandSwitzerlandYorkshire (England)
- Associated People/Groups:
- Gurney, Emma, ca. 1800-1860Hutton Hall (Guisborough, England)Pease familyPease, Edward Lloyd, 1861-1934Pease, Edward, 1767-1858Pease, Elizabeth Lucy, 1833-1881Pease, Emma Gurney, ca. 1830-1895Pease, Francis Richard, 1844-1865Pease, Helen Blanche, 1865-1951Pease, Henry, 1807-1881Pease, Jane Gurney, 1827-1894Pease, John Henry, 1836-1854Pease, Mary Cecelia, 1892-1975Pease, Mary W.Pease, Rachel, 1831-1912Pease, Sarah Charlotte, 1858-1929Waterhouse, 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