Pease, Mary W., Sketchbook: Switzerland, 1886
- Call Number:
- MSS 6
- Creator:
- Pease, Mary W.
- Title(s):
- Sketchbook: Switzerland
- Date:
- 1886
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Series:
- Series I: Sketchbooks and drawings
- Part of Collection:
- 2, folder 13
- Provenance:
- Acquired 2009, Paul Mellon Fund.
- Conditions Governing Access:
- The materials are open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use:
- 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 Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts.
- Scope and Content:
- Contains watercolors made by Lady Pease during a family trip to Switzerland in 1886. The paintings are mostly very complete and depict landscapes observed throughout the voyage, from the Dover cliffs to the mountains and lakes of Switzerland. Labeled scenes include: Dover, Zurich, Silvaplana, Engadin, Poschiavo, St. Moritz, Thusis, Simplon, Chillon Castle, Lake Geneva, and Interlaken.
- Physical Description:
- 1 v. (23 leaves of drawings) ; 11 x 18 cm. Bound in contemporary quarter dark green morocco and dark green cloth.
- 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:
- EuropeGreat 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
- Archival Object:
- https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/3281
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/3281?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1