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Bibliographic Record Display

• Author/Creator:Bulstrode, Christopher Stone, 1818-1894.
  
• Title:Sketchbook.
  
• Production:England, 1831-1832.
  
• Physical Description:1 volume (14 drawings) ; 21 x 28 cm
  

• Yale Holdings

  Holdings Record Display

  • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
    Request for use in the YCBA Study Room
    
    
  • Call Number: NC590 .B85 1831+ Oversize
    
  • Status:No information available 
  • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
    

   
• Notes:The volume includes Bulstrode's autograph on the inner front cover, dated July 28th, 1831.
  
• Biographical / Historical note:The artist is probably Christopher Stone Bulstrode (1818-1894), who would later become a cabinet-maker and upholsterer at Cambridge.
  
• Summary:Drawings are executed in graphite or pen and black ink, with one watercolor drawing. One drawing is a self-portrait, depicting a young man with paints and a portable easel on his back, along with a signboard reading "Lithographic Sketches by C. Bulstrode, 1832." Also present are classical figure studies, copies from the antique, physiognomic observations, and landscape scenes. One rural scene is identified as "Croxley Hall Farm" (Hertfordshire).
  
• Format:Visual Material
• Subjects:Drawing--Study and teaching.
  Figures (representations)
  Hertfordshire (England)--Pictorial works.
  
• Genre/Form:Graphite drawings.
  Sketchbooks.
  Children's art.