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Sketchbook: Working drawings, related to ... decoration of Cardiff Castle

JOHN, Thomas
Sketchbook: Working drawings, related to ... decoration of Cardiff Castle
Image: By permission of Amgueddfa Cymru — Museum Wales
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Fol 1, ink: 51 working drawings for wood carvings/ on shutters in (sic) Cardiff Castle/ executed by Thomas John senr from/ designs by William Burges (a.R.a ) about the year 1874/ (Thomas John senr, farther of Sir W. Goscombe John R.A) died in 1893.

Fol 2, pencil: carved quatrefoils/ on shutters in small dining room/ Cardiff Castle.

Fol 37, verso, pencil: Paintings by various artists (principally by Fred Weekes)/ in Clock Tower, Cardiff Castle.

Fol 38: from paintings in the Clock Tower, Cardiff Castle.

Fol 45,ink: Mr Thomas Nicholls made the models in particully/ (of London), the whole of the sculpture at Cardiff Castle. Pencil: carved stone capitals in chapel/ (and other places) Cardiff Castle. By Thomas Nicholls, Sculptor.

Several individual sketches are numbered and inscribed with locations.

Front cover, ink: Thomas John.


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Collection

Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales

Item Number

NMW A 11528

Creation/Production

JOHN, Thomas
Role: Artist

Measurements

Height (cm): 20.2
Width (cm): 16

Location

In store
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