Skip to main content

Sketches, some coloured, of places in Shropshire, North Wales, etc., with a few papers and engravings, written or drawn in about 1830-1840 chiefly by miss Pigott

 File
MS. Pigott c. 1
Held at the Weston Library

  • Request
    this

Among the sketches are the following churches:

  1. (fol. 2v) Aston near Edgmond
  2. (fol. 3) Habberley
  3. (fol. 3v) Tibberton
  4. (fol. 4v) Chetwynd
  5. (fol. 61v) Acton Burnell

There are also sketches of the following:

  1. (fol. 5) Chetwynd hall
  2. (fol. 5v) Conway Castle
  3. (fol. 5v) Beaumaris Castle
  4. (fol. 7) Framlingham Castle
  5. (fol. 8) Doddershall house
  6. (fols. 10, 11) Duffryn house, Glamorganshire, cf. fol. 56v
  7. (fol. 22) Aston hall
  8. (fol. 23v) Pradoe
  9. (fol. 43v) Rhysnant
  10. (fol. 60) Stanley hall, Shropshire.

There are also a few minor effusions, and a few papers about Shrewsbury (fol. 73). Some words of miss Pigott used during an illness, on about April 11, 1846, are on fol. 70.

Dates

  • Creation: written or drawn in about 1830-1840 chiefly by miss Pigott

Extent

86 Leaves

Language of Materials

  • English

Shelfmark

MS. Pigott c. 1

Other Finding Aids

Falconer Madan, et al., A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the Quarto series (7 vols. in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted, with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vol. IV, no 23484

Physical Facet

On paper

Dimensions

14 1/2 × 12 in.

Repository Details

Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository

Contact:
Weston Library
Broad Street
Oxford OX1 3BG United Kingdom