Item Bonomi MSS 27.24 - England. Essex. Harwich.

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Views of Harwich in Essex, with detailed notes:

• pencil and ink sketches on paper
• loose
• 35.1 x 24.5 cm
• [on sketch] 'Landguard ft' (ink note)
• [on sketch] 'R Orwell' (ink note)
• [on sketch] 'you must shew this as a point in distance' (ink note)
• [on sketch] 'Languard Fort / 3 miles' (ink note)
• [on sketch] 'grass fields' (ink note)
• [on sketch] 'osses' (ink note)
• [on sketch] 'grass slope' (ink note)
• [on sketch] 'old houses' (ink note)
• [on sketch] '...hi]gher / ...]an down' (ink note)
• [on sketch] 'Martello towers / sunk in ditch level / with ground. / This is a much larger tower / than the common Martellos / would hold 3000 men' (ink note)
• [on sketch] '1 White Church' (ink note)
• [on sketch] '2 white Lighthouse' (ink note)
• [on sketch] '3 pretty library / 4 cement works / 5 Distant land / 6 flag staff / 7 panorama when I (underlined) was there / Camera (?)' (ink note)
• [on sketch] '8 promenade see the posts at the end / and a crane' (ink note)
• [on sketch] 'Harwich 10 years ago / monumental objects are all coeval slate | stone' (ink note)
• [on sketch] 'another stone / White l[ight]house lower down on the / shore - or on a promenade / tis octagon I think' (ink note)

Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford