Charles Cockerell: Designs for Cambridge University Library

Charles Cockerell: Designs for Cambridge University Library

Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

Presented to the Library by Mrs. F.P. Cockerell, per J.W. Clark, 1887 (MS.Add.9272/1-3) and c.1900 (MS.Add.9272/4); transferred from the Rare Books Department, 1994.

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Cambridge University Library holds other drawings, MS.Add.6630, consisting mostly of rough sketches, c.1829-37, and the estimate and observations in the first competition, 1829. These were presented to the Library by Mrs. Noel, C.R. Cockerell's granddaughter, 1930.

For a description of these drawings, especially MS.Add.9272/4, see David Watkin, 'Newly discovered drawings by C. R. Cockerell for Cambridge University Library', Architectural History, 26: 1983, a copy of which can be found with MS.Add.9272/4.