• Title
  John Glover sketchbook No. 51, ca. 1826-1831
• Call number
  DGA 27
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  ca. 1826-31
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  825767
• Issue Copy
  Microfilm : CY 948, 539-558
  
• Physical Description
  1 sketchbook (25 leaves with 17) - pen and pencil drawings - 17 x 26 cm
  
• Scope and Content
  21. Gold Rill Bridge 1831
  22. Place Fell on the side of Gobarrow Park as seen in the next page
  24. Mount Wellington
  57/41. Caernarvon Castle
  26/44H. Untitled
  57/57I. Southampton 1826
  (Unnumbered )York
  102/41. St Pauls
  100/41. Tristan da Cunha
  /41. Westminster Abbey
  25/61H. Yorkshire
  26/61H. Yorkshire
  24/57I. Durham Cathedral
  18/57. Carlisle
  27/57I. Durham Cathedral
  37/57I. Bridge at Durham
  29/44H. Windsor Castle
  38/57I. Durham Cathedral
• Finding Aids
  Contents list kept with the sketchbook -
• General note
  
  The sketchbook is landscape format, mottled board cover with red spine and corners. `Ulswater’ is inscribed on the spine on both sides. The extant works are by two artists. The first two, `Gold Rill Bridge 1831 and `Place Fell’ are by Glover as is the third, Mount Wellington and the tipped-in `York’ which appears later is actually Durham. The remaining works in frames are copies and were done after Glovers’ arrival in Tasmania. They were done by someone with access to at least four other sketchbooks who understood the copy notation.
  
  There are significantly, further extant material from this book by John Glover (Senior) located elsewhere. Sketches located at DGA 29c 57-59 are originally from the beginning of this sketchbook. Earlier sketches are numbered in pencil LC, 1-24 (highest extant number). Later sketches are copies and are numbered by sketch and sketchbook according to their sources, sketch number/book number, the books used were 41, 44, 57 and 61.
  
  `John McPhee (PXn 527) believes this is possibly a sketchbook done by J. Livesay while a pupil of John or more probably by John Richardson Glover on board the Thomas Laurie en route from England to Australia'.
  
  Reference:
  John Glover Report for the Mitchell Library, 2004 / Max Staples (MLMSS 7835)
  Digital order no:Album ID : 942992
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  `No. 51’ – inside front cover
  `I.G – inside front cover
  `J. Livesay [?]’
  `Royal Naval College’
  `Portsmouth’
  `1831’
  `No. 270’ (in a circle)
  `these to be the last book in the series’
  `Sketch book by John Glover’
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  A tipped in note by Bernard Smith 14/9/55 says, `The drawings enclosed by a double frame (except that pasted within a double frame) may be by John Glover junior (himself an artist). They do not appear to be sufficiently accomplished to be by John Glover senior’.
• Date note
  
  All drawings are unsigned, two are dated and nearly all are titled.
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Glover, John Richardson, 1790-1868
  
• Topic
  country scenes
  landscapes (views)
  sketchbooks
  bush
  castles
  bridges
  
• Place
  Wellington, Mount (Tas.)
  Southampton (England)
  Yorkshire (England)
  Carlisle (England)
  Westminster Abbey
  Durham Castle (England)
  Caernarvon Castle (Wales)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE434773

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