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• Author/Creator:Humble, Michael M.
  
• Title:[Sketches made during a trip to Germany and Northern Europe]
  
• Production:[Northern Europe], 1844.
  
• Physical Description:1 volume (approximately 44 drawings) ; 19 x 28 cm
  

• Yale Holdings

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  • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
    Request for use in the YCBA Study Room
    
    
  • Call Number: In Process DD39 .H86 1844+ Oversize
    
  • Status:No information available 
  • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
    

   
• Notes:Bound in contemporary half roan and marbled boards.
  
• Summary:Sketchbook kept by Michael M. Humble, of the Rectory, Sutton-cum-Duckmanton, Derbyshire, during a trip to Germany and Northern Europe in 1844. Comprises 44 pencil, wash, or watercolor drawings, some just preliminary studies, but including watercolors of towns, scenery, and dining companions. On one inner board Humble has listed paint colors and their characteristics. Humble was rector of the parish for 50 years, 1839-1889.
  
• Format:Visual Material
• Incomplete contents:Watercolours include: Dinner companions -- Lutheran pastor -- Hall at Wiesbaden -- Sonenburg -- Wiesbaden lodgings -- Rooms at Wiesbaden -- Old tower at Sonenberg -- Homburgh invalid --Konigstein nr Homburg -- Homburg -- Old tower at Homburg.
  
• Subjects:Humble, Michael M.
  Germany--Pictorial works.
  Europe, Northern--Pictorial works.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Chron.--1844.
  
• Genre/Form:Graphite drawings.
  Wash drawings.
  Watercolors.
  Landscape drawings--Germany.
  Landscape drawings--Europe, Northern.
  Travel sketches--Germany
  Travel sketches--Europe, Northern.
  Sketchbooks.