diary;
notebook
- Museum number
- 1970,0711.13
- Description
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Journal in a notebook quarter-bound in brown cloth and marbled covers, containing 35 leaves with manuscript pagination 1-66 (apart from the fly-leaves) with an account of the author's travels to Italy and return to England; details include the names of the leaving party - sculptors Mr Gibson and Mr Spence, Mrs Spence, Miss Phillips (sister of the portrait painter) - and records visits to towns, sites, and Leighton's studio, sketching, acquaintances, and other details. 10/10/1853-19/10/1854.
Pen and brown ink
- Production date
- 1853-1854
- Dimensions
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Height: 250 millimetres
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Height: 268 millimetres
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Width: 202 millimetres (envelope covers)
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Width: 190 millimetres (notebook covers)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The envelope also contains two loose sheets of manuscript notes by C F Bell, (numbered in the top right hand corner) dated March 1937, mentioning Poynter's birth and family history, and briefly describing the accompanying copies of ten letters addressed to Poynter (when a young art student at the time of writing the diary) by his maternal grandmother Mrs Lavinia Forster. The typescript letters, on sixteen loose sheets numbered in the top left hand corner, date from December 1853 to January 1856, and include discussion of Poynter's journey and work, recommending new acquaintances, places to visit, views, etc.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1970
- Acquisition notes
- Baldwin was the great- nephew of Sir Edward Poynter who was related to Lavinia Forster therefore he had them by family descent.
Acquired in exchange for the cost of binding valued at £48
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1970,0711.13
