Collection Wild MSS - James William Wild Collection

2 portfolios and 3 notebooks

Formerly in the possession of Miss C. Wild (daughter?).

There is an entry for the Wild MSS in the Topographical Bibliography manuscripts' records list stating that his daughters presented the material. The accession of the Wild MSS was also reported in the Ashmolean Museum Report, see below, where it is said that the MSS were presented by Wild's daughter, Miss Wild.

Two portfolios containing drawings and plans, and three illustrated notebooks.

Kept as received.

Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.

Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.

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Catalogue.

These are originals.

None.

Other Archives:

• Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design & Department of Paintings, Accessions 1938. London: The Board of Education, 1939. The material in the V&A includes plans, sketches, drawings, etc. of Islamic monuments in Cairo (mosques and domestic buildings), as well as of monuments from other cities/countries, such as Damascus, Greece, Italy and Spain.

Not published.

• Accession note, see 'Report of the Committee of Management of the Griffith Institute for the year 1939' in Ashmolean Museum Report 1939, p. 41 ("Wild MSS. Note-book containing plans, copies of scenes and inscriptions, and notes by James William Wild, later curator of the Soane Museum (1842). Presented by his daughter, Miss Wild.").