Sketchbook, with "Writings" on the spine

This material is held atTate Archive

Reference
- GB 70 TGA 8224/66
Dates of Creation
- nd
Physical Description
- 1 piece

Scope and Content

Page 1 Blank, page 2 Unfinished profile head and notes, page 3 Unfinished head, page 4 Written list headed "Eggs", pages 5-9 Notes under headings "Object of painting", "preparation", "primers" etcetera, pages 10-11 Lists of films, page 12 List headed "Map", page 13 Geometric designs, page 14 Notes headed "17 years", page 15 Notes headed "Alan Kettley" about army life, page 16 Study of a lampshade frame with measurements, page 17 Notes on Trading in 1896, pages 18-22 Notes about "Brillat Savarin", page 23 List of books about gastronomy, page 24 More notes about Savarin, page 25 Notes about America and gastronomy, pages 26-27 Lists of notes, page 28 Head and shoulders of a man, page 29 Blank, page 30 List headed "B S Aphorisms", page 31 Notes on food and cooking, page 32 More notes on gastronomy, page 33 Notes about churches, pages 34-35 Notes on enamel and resins, pages 36-38 Notes headed "Tresses" about a firm of hat manufacturers, pages 39 Notes about rollers, page 40 Notes about brushes, page 41 Notes on "Gateway to the Antarctic", pages 42-48 Letter "from Soyer to Ed" about a sea voyage and a writing table, page 49 List of dates, pages 50-55 Notes on canned and preserved foods, pages 56-59 Notes on animals and crop diaries, page 60 Study of a wall with advertisements, page 61 Advertisement for "Mackeson", page 62 "For Sale" advert, page 63 Exterior of buildings with decorative scrolls, page 64 A roof top and telegraph pole, page 65 Address and shopping list, page 66 Study of church "St Georges in the East", pages 67-81 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