Notes by Sir Robert Ker Porter
Single Item
MS. Eng. hist. c. 409
Held at the Weston Library
Notes by Sir Robert Ker Porter, mainly on military colonisation in Russia, and the situation in Persia in 1820, c.1820-1824, with some pages in the hand of Jane Porter.
Dates
- Creation: c.1820-1824
Extent
36 Leaves
Language of Materials
- English
Preferred Citation
Oxford, Bodleian Libraries [followed by shelfmark and folio or page reference, e.g. MS. Eng. hist. c. 409, fols. 1-2].
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Shelfmark:
MS. Eng. hist. c. 409
Collection ID (for staff)
CMD ID 10794-2
Abstract
Notes by Sir Robert Ker Porter, c. 1820-1824.
Biographical / Historical
Sir Robert Ker Porter, 1777-1842, was an English painter, writer, and diplomat.
Other Finding Aids
Custodial History
Inscribed '117' on fol. 1; Phillipps MS. 24368 (previously numbered 25368 in error); W. H. Robinson, cat. 82 (1952), 608.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Bought, Sotheby's, 28 June 1966, lot 485.
- Title
- Notes by Sir Robert Ker Porter, c. 1820-1824
- Status
- Published
- Date
- EAD version 2019 by Alice Whichelow
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
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