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Call Number:
MSS 8
Holdings:
Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Creator:
Carr, Anna Margaret, 1797–1872
Title(s):
Album of drawings of Pisa and vicinity
Date:
1827-1828
Classification:
Archives and Manuscripts
Series:
Series I: Travel sketches
Part of Collection:
Oversize 6
Provenance:
Acquired 2009, Paul Mellon Fund.
Conditions Governing Access:
The materials are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use:
Copyright Undetermined

The collection is the physical property of the Yale Center for British Art. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the Archives Department.
Scope and Content:
Labeled "Foreign Sketches 1828." The album is mostly comprised of drawings from Anna Margaret's travels in and around Pisa from January through April of 1828, but also includes a few from late 1827. The album ends with two drawings from Martigny, Switzerland in May 1828. Aside from these final two, the drawings are pasted into the album in no discernible order. Aside from Pisa, places identified in the drawings include Florence (drawn from afar), San Donnino, Serchio, Lucca, and La Verruca (in the Valle dei Calci).
Physical Description:
1 volume (59 drawings) : graphite, some with watercolor ; 32 x 47 cm
Genre:
Graphite drawings, Watercolors (paintings), Pictorial works, Travel sketches, Diaries, Genealogies, Scrapbooks, Sketchbooks, Landscape drawings, Views, Charcoal drawings, Engravings (prints), Photographs, and Wash drawings
Subject Terms:
Chron
Grand tours (Education)
History
Social life and customs
Women artists
Women travelers
Subject Period:
1824-1899
Associated Places:
Europe
France
Great Britain
Italy
Northumberland (England)
Pisa (Italy)
Switzerland
Associated People/Groups:
Carr family
Carr, Anna Margaret, 1797-1872
Carr, Harriet, 1829-1889
Carr, Thomas William, 1830-1912
Cranworth, Laura Rolfe, Lady, 1807-1868
Cranworth, Robert Monsey Rolfe, Baron, 1790-1868
Eshott House (Alnwick, England)
Lushington, Sarah Grace, 1794-1837
Finding Aid Title:
Carr family collection of travel sketches, scrapbooks, and genealogical material
Collection PDF:
https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/24.pdf
Archival Object:
https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/3307
Metadata Cloud URL:
https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/3307?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1