Item 743 - Book of sketches of Henry Babington Smith and James Duff Duff by Eveleen Myers

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Reference code

Add. MS a/743

Title

Book of sketches of Henry Babington Smith and James Duff Duff by Eveleen Myers

Date(s)

  • 1887 (Creation)

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Extent and medium

1 vol., c. 282 x 247 x 25 mm. 25 sketches (pencil and ink, 1 with added watercolour) pasted in.
1 sheet of paper and 1 slip of card loose at front.

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Archival history

Formerly in the possession of Constance Babington Smith, daughter of Henry Babington Smith.

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Gift of Elisabeth Lloyd Jones, daughter of Henry Babington Smith and executor for her sister Constance Babington Smith, May 2002.

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Scope and content

In general, the sketches seem to have been done first in pencil and then gone over in sepia and/or black ink line and wash. In one sketch, 'Girton Lecturer Diffusing Sweetness And Light', depicting Duff with a number of Girton College students, the washread more

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