• Title
  Porfolio of sketches, ca. 1790-1830s / John Glover
• Call number
  DGA 31
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  ca. 1790-1830s
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings, Watercolours
• Reference code
  825806
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  3 portfolios (35 loose sketches on cards) - pen, pencil and watercolour - 26.5 x 28 cm.
  
• Scope and Content
  DGA 31/Vol.01
  All images are loose and undated. Some images are numbered.
  1. 5 Furness Abbey
  2. 24 Derwent Water
  3. 26 Derwent Water
  4. 122 On the Machno
  5. Ossians Wall ? Dunheld Pertshire
  6a. The Esk at the Bridge - near the Duke of Buccleugh
  6b. [Verso of 6a]
  7. The bursting of the Thames Tunn[ el ? ]
  8. From Ld Abergavenys Park Bayham
  9a. Turkey ?
  9b. 18 Untitled sketch [Verso of 9a]
  10a. Greenwich Park
  10b. On verso of 10a Sketch of woman
  
  DGA 31/Vol.02
  All images are loose and undated, 2 1/2" x 3 1/2" on cardboard.
  Some images are numbered
  1. 4 Wirksworth
  2. 5 ? Slam Thorpe Cloud in the distance
  3. 10 At Wirksworth
  4. 12 The High Torr from the Wirksworth road
  5. 13 High Torr from above Saxton's
  6. 15 Cromford
  7. 34 From near the Temple Matlock
  8. 35 Matlock from the water below Saxton's
  9. 38 From ? Seedane's Matlock
  10. 42 Mr. Arkwright's at Matlock
  11. 44 From the Temple on the Heights of Abraham Matlock
  12. 45 Matlock
  13. 46 Matlock
  14. 47 Matlock looking towards Mr.Arkwrights
  15. 48 Near Wirksworth
  16. 49 Matlock from the Boat
  17. 50 The Rock Call'd the Ship at Matlock
  
  DGA 31/Vol.03
  All images are loose and undated, 3" x 4 1/2" on cardboard.
  Some images are numbered
  1. 17 Kirkstall Abbey
  2. 32 At Hackfall
  3a. 34 At Knaresbro' from the Bridge
  3b. [Verso 3a. Descriptive text]
  4. 36 At Knaresbro'
  5. 44 ? Hardraw Scar near Hawes
  6. 45 Near Sedbergh
  7. 47 ? Hardraw Scarr
  8. 57 Red Mire near Bolton Castle
  9. 59 Windermere
  10a. 60 At Rowlinsons Nab
  10b. [Verso 10a. Descriptive text]
  11. 61 Windermere
  12a. 62 A Bay in Windermere
  12b. [Verso of 12a. Descriptive text]
  13. 93 Ulswater
  14. 94 Ulswater
  15. 96 Ulswater
  16. 100 [Untitled]
  17. 124 Shenstone Mill
  18. 131 Fine Sunset
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  These drawings have been constructed into three albums (A,B,C) by the State Library. Volume A, possible drawings belonging to sketchbooks: DGA 31a - DGA 30; A4 and A9 - DGA 26; A8 – DGA 23). Volumes B & C are made up entirely of small cards and do not derive from sketchbooks.
  
  Reference:
  John Glover Report for the Mitchell Library, 2004 / Max Staples (MLMSS 7835)
  Microfilm copy available: CY 948, frames 915-959
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  All the works are undated, only some are numbered.
• Topic
  country scenes
  landscapes (views)
  castles
  mountains
  sketches
  churches
  coasts
  floods
  harbours
  
• Place
  London (England)
  Derbyshire (England)
  Ullswater (England)
  Windemere (England)
  Greenwich (London, England)
  Furness Abbey
  Kirkstall Abbey
  Perthshire (Scotland)
  Matlock (Derbyshire, England)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE8636585

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