Sketchbook with studies of the London blitz

This material is held atTate Archive

Reference
- GB 70 TGA 8224/21
Dates of Creation
- 1946
Physical Description
- 1 piece

Scope and Content

Page 1 Three studies of figures in bombed landscapes, page 2 top: Study of monsters and a woman seated at the tea table, page 2 centre: Man and woman in front of a ruined building, page 2 bottom: Soldier with a gun approaching a wooden construction with a bull's head, page 3 top: Man approaching a woman who is standing outside a house, page 3 centre: Man fighting a wooden structure with a bull's head, page 3 bottom: A man wrestling with a creature which has the body of an aeroplane, page 4 top: Creature with the body of an aeroplane flying over houses in a landscape, page 4 centre: Cell with several figures, page 4 bottom: Head of a ghost, page 5 Two men and two women wearing coats standing at a counter, page 6 Studies of men and women observed outdoors, page 7 Studies of men and women observed outdoors, page 8 Street scene with figures, inscribed "James Street Camden Town", page 9 Two women in outdoor clothes looking at something in the distance, page 10 Study of shop fronts, inscribed "Chalk Farm Road (Camden Town)", pages 11-17 Blank.

Archive Record|Table of contents

Seventy five drawings and sketchbooks by James BoswellTGA 8224

Untitled drawing of a grinning Punch looking at puppet-like man hanging by a nooseTGA 8224/1

Untiled drawing of a masked man with large nose and a curly-haired womanTGA 8224/2

Untitled drawing of four circus performers walking behind a horse-drawn caravanTGA 8224/3

Untitled drawing of three circus performers getting dressed in front of a circus tentTGA 8224/4

Untitled drawing of a group of circus performers in the open airTGA 8224/5

Untitled drawing for Punch and Judy - A group of circus performers talkingTGA 8224/6

Sketchbook (Dover, London), with artist's name and address inscribed on the inside front cover, 1938TGA 8224/7

Sketchbook (Street scenes and caricatures)TGA 8224/8

Sketchbook (Street scenes and caricatures)TGA 8224/9

Sketchbook (Essays, London)TGA 8224/10

Sketchbook (Punch and Judy)TGA 8224/11

Sketchbook (inscribed inside front cover with the artist's name and address and "Sketchbook 1940")TGA 8224/12

Sketchbook (inscribed inside front cover "1940")TGA 8224/13

Sketchbook (inscribed inside front cover "1941/2" "Scotland")TGA 8224/14

Sketchbook (Scotland)TGA 8224/15

Sketchbook with four inserts (Middle East-mostly in Iraq)TGA 8224/16

Sketchbook(inscribed inside front cover Iraq, 1943)TGA 8224/17

Sketchbook with drawings of Iraq and MaltaTGA 8224/18

Sketchbook with drawings of Iraq and studies of EuropaTGA 8224/19

Sketchbook with "1945" inside front cover and "1945 and 1949" on label on front of coverTGA 8224/20

Sketchbook with studies of the London blitzTGA 8224/21

Sketchbook containing postwar studiesTGA 8224/22

Sketchbook containing postwar studiesTGA 8224/23

Sketchbook(Postwar miscellany, London and Brighton)TGA 8224/24

Drawing entitled 'Restaurant Varin'TGA 8224/25

Drawing entitled 'The Bedford Arms Camden Town'TGA 8224/26

Untitled drawing of a road going under a bridgeTGA 8224/27

Drawing inscribed "Dad" portrait of a man wearing pince-nez and smoking a pipeTGA 8224/28

Untitled drawing, a life study of a female nude, dated 1953TGA 8224/29

Three studies: Station master and child running towards a GWR(Great Western Railway) steam train; Woman and four girls in an open car on a country road and a picnicTGA 8224/30

Untitled drawing of a detail of a corner building showing a window and a cornice above itTGA 8224/31

Untitled drawing of a woman wearing a turban seated in a chair holding a small girl in her armsTGA 8224/32

Untitled drawing of a small girl eating from a bowl with a spoonTGA 8224/33

Untitled drawing of a small child bent forward with her hands touching the groundTGA 8224/34

Five studies, two of a child wearing a hat, two of a man and one of two men playing bowlsTGA 8224/35

Two studies, a landscape with mountains and a portrait of a standing childTGA 8224/36

Untitled drawing of two men facing each otherTGA 8224/37

Untitled drawing of two men seated next to each otherTGA 8224/38

Untitled drawing of a woman wearing a coat seated at the end of a setteeTGA 8224/39

Untitled drawing of a large woman standing in half profileTGA 8224/40

Untitled drawing of a musician standing playing the violin next to a seated musician playing an accordeon, with two seated figures listeningTGA 8224/41

Untitled drawing of an Interior of a restaurant crowded with customers inscribed "Athenée P Nov 6"TGA 8224/42

Untitled drawing of a portrait of a man inscribed "Institut Nov 4"TGA 8224/43

Untitled drawing of two women standing next to each otherTGA 8224/44

Untitled, drawing of a car seen from behindTGA 8224/45

Sketchbook, with "1952/53" inside front coverTGA 8224/46

Sketchbook, with "1952 & 4 & 6 inside front coverTGA 8224/47

Sketchbook, with "Paris/London/ Eastbourne/Hove 1952" on label on spineTGA 8224/48

Sketchbook, with "1953" inside front coverTGA 8224/49

Sketchbook, with Boswell's name and address and 1953 inside front coverTGA 8224/50

Sketchbook, with "Roughs for 'A kid for two farthings 1953" on the label on the spineTGA 8224/51

Sketchbook, with "East end - Cats 1953" on the label on the spine and 1953 inside front coverTGA 8224/52

Sketchbook, with "Bucharest 1953" on the label on the spine and 1953 ? inside front coverTGA 8224/53

Sketchbook, with 1954 erased and 1953 written inside the front coverTGA 8224/54

Sketchbook, with "Paris Bucharest and London 1953" on the label on the spineTGA 8224/55

Sketchbook, with "Roughs for Everest 1953" on a label on the spineTGA 8224/56

Sketchbook, with "La Flotte and Paris" on the inside coverTGA 8224/57

Sketchbook, with "1953/4" on the inside coverTGA 8224/58

Sketchbook, with "Beg Meil" on the spineTGA 8224/59

Sketchbook, with "Chartres 1956" on the spineTGA 8224/60

Sketchbook, with "The winning art" sketches Mental Hospital for S.T.1958" on the spineTGA 8224/61

Sketchbook, with "Dieppe, August 1958" on the spineTGA 8224/62

Sketchbook, with "Marseille 1959" on the spine and the artist's name and address inside the front coverTGA 8224/63

Sketchbook, with "Birmingham Roughs" on the spineTGA 8224/64

Sketchbook, with "Shell" on the spineTGA 8224/65

Sketchbook, with "Writings" on the spineTGA 8224/66

Sketchbook, with "Seaside, interiors, figures" on the spineTGA 8224/68

Sketchbook, with "Illustrations of "Alice through the looking glass" and Lady Godiva on the spineTGA 8224/69

Sketchbook, with "Anatomy" on the spineTGA 8224/70

Sketchbook, with "Italy" on the spineTGA 8224/71

Sketchbook, with "Biographies - writings" on the spineTGA 8224/72

Sketchbook, with "Sketches-Writings" on the spine, 1944TGA 8224/73

Sketchbook, with "Leeds, Portsmouth, London" on the spineTGA 8224/74

Sketchbook, with "Writings and Sketches" on the spineTGA 8224/75