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Drawings (43) of scenes including Gypsies and Travellers.

Archive Art Item: BC MS ROM 1/5/19/10 Contains records with digital media

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Drawings (43) of scenes including Gypsies and Travellers.

Level: Item

Classmark: BC MS ROM 1/5/19/10

Original reference: Bc MS Rom 2/6/5

Creator(s): Frederick Lawson

Date(s): c.1920 - c.1950

Size and medium: 43 drawings

Manifest: https://iiif.library.leeds.ac.uk/presentation/cc/tvd65m83

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/504963

Collection group(s): Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections

Description

43 unframed pen and ink, pencil, charcoal and crayon drawings of Gypsies and Travellers.


Various sizes, [c. 1920 - c. 1950.] Chiefly signed and dated.


Many placed, including Appleby, Askrigg, Brough, Hawes, Leyburn, Redmire, and Scott’s Yard, Lincoln.Some are mounted. One sent as a Christmas card, 1950. Some for illustrations in works by Dorothy Una Ratcliffe. Gypsy and Traveller subjects.


Individually listed.

Provenance

In the original (1962) Romany Catalogue this was said to have consisted of 38 drawings.However at some point additional 5 drawings have been added and possibly mixed together, [some were catalogued/duplicated as part of BC Rom 2 but it is unclear which were part of the original deposit]. In 2017 these have been combined/kept together as one group and where additional evidence is found that suggests that any were a later deposit - notes will be made per item.

System of arrangement

The order in which these were found has been maintained as it was not originally clear whether the order of these, 1-38 was as per the original order whilst in the possession of Dorothy Una Ratcliffe. As cataloguing has progressed it appears less likely that this was the case but rather that it was imposed after its arrival at the University.

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