Art in the archives
Sketches, drawings, watercolours, engravings and oil paintings have entered the archives mainly within broader collections: sometimes, indeed, as sketches within notebooks.
A few manuscripts or archives are entirely pictorial, most notably the Grieve family collection of theatre designs, 1813-1857 () and a contemporary scroll depicting the funeral of . Some archival collections contain correspondence etc. about art, notably the and the .
This list complements the archives catalogue, which includes a subject search facility. See also posters (not listed here), chiefly theatrical or political, in the .
What the archives hold
- The botanical artist (1758-1840),
- The social investigator (1840-1916),
- The Italian draughtsman (1713-1770), ICS , and
- The artist and book illustrator (1845-1915),
- The potter and novelist (1839-1917),
- The painter (1803-1882),
- The painter and draughtsman (1874-1955),
- The German academic (1880-1931), IMLR,
- The German writer (1977-1962), IMLR,
- The writer and poet (1865-1936),
- The artist Maude McDonald, ,
- The poet and novelist (1878-1967), ,
- The actor (1899-1969), IMLR
- The writer and designer (1870-1944),
- The painter (1786-1863; possible attribution),
- The artist and architectural draughtsman (1762-1832), . See also his book illustrations.
- The painter (1796-1864), . See also his .
- Illustrations pertaining to the àËÅöÊÓƵ: ULC/PC, , , , , MS1153/1
- Theatrical designs: , , IMLR, , . These complement theatrical strengths within the printed special collections: see especially the Malcolm Morley Collection and the Granville-Barker Collection. For supporting material on theatre, see the literary research collections.
- Railways and trains (mostly engineering drawings): , , , , , , . These complement the strong section on railway history within the Goldsmiths’ Library of Economic Literature.
- Ecclesiastical architecture: ,
- Borley Rectory, by M.E. Wilson, HPG/8/6/5, c.1940. This complements books and pamphlets about Borley Rectory in the Harry Price Library of Magical Literature.
- Steam train passing Leighton Buzzard on the àËÅöÊÓƵ and Birmingham Railway line, by Thomas Creswick (1811-1869), MS996, 1837. This complements the strong section on rail transport in the Goldsmiths’ Library of Economic Literature.
- John Storrar (1811-1886), Chairman of Convocation of the àËÅöÊÓƵ, UoL/ CN/7/1/21, 19th cent.
- A few engravings, some on playing cards, to illustrate themes of the Harry Price Library and Archive of Magical Literature, including engravings: see HPF, HPG and HPI.
- Engraving for jigsaw puzzle, ‘'The Progress of Sugar Neatly Dissected', , early 19th cent. Complements works on sugar production in the Goldsmiths’ Library of Economic Literature and from the Kress Library (see full-text database, ‘Making of the Modern World’)
- Prints of engravings in scrapbook of ca 300 pictures of 18th- and 19th-century English clergymen, , c.1850
- Ca 150 engravings, prints, photographs etc., assembled by T.H. Lewin to illustrate his book 'Life and Death', MS811/IV/86, c.1856-1911
- Prints of William Marshall’s engravings- of William Shakespeare, . Complements Shakespeareana within the printed special collections.
- Mint officials at work, headed 'A part of the standard of weights and measures in the Exchequer, Anno 12 Henrici Septimi', , 18th cent.
- William Noy (1577-1634) by Henry Meyer, , mid-17th-cent.
- Coloured engraving of Windsheim (now Bad-Windsheim) in Germany, from Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia, MS992
- Prints and engravings of plans and views of Madrid, 15th-19th century, . Complements early printed books on the history of Madrid in the Eliot-Phelips Collection.
- Reproductions of engravings of the life of the Virgin, by Albrecht Dürer, 1508-1510,
- Coloured copper engravings copying cartoons by James Gillray, , within cartoons and illustrations on social and political themes (1792-1883), collected by Ron Heisler
- Léopold III of Belgium, MS800/X/74, c.1941
- The civil engineer Thomas Telford (1757-1834), with engravings of Menai Bridge, the Vale of Llangollen and Conway, by W Radclyffe,
- University College àËÅöÊÓƵ, Kings College àËÅöÊÓƵ, and Burlington Gardens, àËÅöÊÓƵ, ULC/PC, 19th cent.
- The Vice-Chancellor Sir James Paget conferring degrees on women at àËÅöÊÓƵ University, ULC/PC28/13, 19th cent
- Prints of engravings of colleges and institutes affiliated with the àËÅöÊÓƵ before 1858, UoL/RO/6/2, c.1890
- Engravings of chastity belts,