File NLW MS 24017D. - A list of Welsh drawings

Identity area

Reference code

NLW MS 24017D.

Title

A list of Welsh drawings

Date(s)

  • 1795 (Creation)

Level of description

File

Extent and medium

6 ff. (blank from f. 4) ; 315 x 200 mm.

Bound at NLW in single section binding with archival manila cover.

Context area

Name of creator

Malchair, John, 1730-1812.

Biographical history

Repository

Archival history

Formerly owned by the art historian Ian Fleming-Williams (d. 1998).

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Ms Liz Fleming-Williams (daughter of Ian Fleming-Williams); Llandrindod; Donation; February 2011; 006085230.

Content and structure area

Scope and content

A list, [September] 1795, by the artist John Malchair of Oxford, of drawings made by him on a tour of north Wales, 22 July-21 August 1785, written on returning to Oxford.
The drawings are described in chronological order, with some additional details and comments on the surroundings, people and weather. The itinerary includes Stinchcombe, Gloucestershire (f. 1), Dinas Mawddwy (f. 2 recto-verso), Barmouth (f. 3) and Harlech (f. 3 recto-verso), Merionethshire, and Beddgelert, Caernarvonshire (f. 3 verso). For a transcript of the list see Colin Harrison, John Malchair of Oxford: Artist and Musician (Oxford, 1998), pp. 150-152.

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Conditions governing access

Conditions governing reproduction

Usual copyright laws apply.

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

Language and script notes

English.

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Existence and location of originals

Existence and location of copies

Related units of description

Of the fifty-one drawings listed in the manuscript some thirty-four are known to be extant, including nine at the National Library of Wales (PA8355-9, PG2044-5, 2048, 2050; see Harrison, p. 152); a 1795 sketchbook of drawings by Malchair of Welsh subjects is in the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff.

Related descriptions

Publication note

Colin Harrison, John Malchair of Oxford: Artist and Musician (Oxford, 1998).

Notes area

Note

Title based on contents.

Note

Preferred citation: NLW MS 24017D.

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Virtua system control number

vtls006085230

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Description identifier

Institution identifier

Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales

Rules and/or conventions used

Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH

Status

Level of detail

Dates of creation revision deletion

May 2011.

Language(s)

  • English

Script(s)

Sources

Archivist's note

Description compiled by Rhys Morgan Jones.

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