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Sketch book of Sir Daniel Gooch

1840-1862

[Engineer's sketch book, ca.1920] / J.C. Staplin. [Contains 32 drawings, ink, handcoloured, of structural details of ships including the armour shelf of the Iron Duke, the centre of the turret of HMS Magdala, the topsides of a composite gun vessel etc. The drawings were probably made by Staplin when a student. Signed on flyleaf]

Engineer's sketch book

circa 1920

One of Roy Ashton's sketch books, containing drawings of figures, scenery, street scenes and buildings.

Roy Ashton's sketches of figures, scenery, streets etc

Piece of lined paper, written in pencil “Ventriloquist dummy” and “Rough wig on top”.

Piece of lined paper

Windsor and Newton blue layout sketch pad containing drawings.

Sketch Book belonging to Roy Ashton

Sketch book, Locomotive Headlamp Codes, c1890-1900, green bound book containing personal collection of sketches of various railway companies headlamp codes.

Locomotive Headlamp Codes

1890-1900

One of Roy Ashton's sketch books relating to the design of his own make-up and costumes for his role in Purcell's opera 'Don Quixote', which he performed with the Intimate Opera Company.

Sketches relating to Don Quixote

Sketch book owned and assembled by Roy Ashton, containing studies for 'The Curse of the Werewolf' (1961): final ideas and stills, suggestions for some of the main characters, sketches of the wolf, and material for the 'The Reptile' (1966) and 'The Plague of the Zombies' (1966).

Character studies by Roy Ashton

1960s

Red folder containing Roy Ashton's caricatures of two of the actors who he made-up most regularly: Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. Writen on front 'Chris Lee Peter Cushing caricatures'.

Book of caricatures by Roy Ashton