Collection Arundale MSS - Francis Arundale Collection

Identity area

Reference code

Arundale MSS

Nadpis

Francis Arundale Collection

Date(s)

  • 1839 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent and medium

1 envelope

Context area

Name of creator

(1807-1853)

Biographical history

British architect and painter; he was born in London, 9 Aug. 1807, son of George A.; he was a pupil of Augustus Pugin and accompanied him to Normandy where he assisted in the Arch. Antiquities of Normandy; he spent several years in Rome and afterwards ... »

Archival history

Found by Professor Hellmut Brunner of a copy of Arundale, Francis and J. Bonomi [1842], Gallery of antiquities selected from the British Museum (OEB 133597). Professor Brunner bought the book containing the letters from an antiquarian bookseller in Tübingen in 1967.

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Presented by Professor Hellmut Brunner in 1967.

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Three letters dated June, September and December 1839, addressed to Charles Bowyer Adderley (later Lord Norton) of Hams Hall, Warwickshire. Non-Egyptological.

Conditions of access and use area

Conditions governing access

Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.

Conditions governing reproduction

Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.

Physical characteristics and technical requirements

No problems.

Allied materials area

Publication note

  • Accession note, see 'Report of the Committee of Management of the Griffith Institute for the year 1967' in Ashmolean Museum Report 1967, p. 80.

Related people and organizations

Physical storage

  • Shelf: 0703A