Item 76 - Sketchbook

Identity area

Reference code

TRER/24/76

Title

Sketchbook

Date(s)

  • c 1937? (Creation)

Level of description

Item

Extent and medium

1 sketchbook with 22 leaves of charcoal drawing paper (only 14 sides used); six sheets of loose paper. Sketches in graphite and coloured crayon.

Context area

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Still lifes, including fruit, books, flowers; sketch of landscape [perhaps from the garden of the Shiffolds]; portraits.

Some sketches are on the back of three loose pages headed 'Fascism in Practice - Proposed Exhibition', outlining plans for theread more

Notes area

Note

Note on inside cover: 'R.C.T. sketches - c. 1937'; however this seems to be in the same hand as the numbering of the item, and the sketches may well be by different people [Julian Trevelyan is an obvious candidate for the more skilled ones].

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