A folio volume of sketches

Item author: David Parkes
Item date: c. 1805-31
Grant Value: £1,125
Item cost: £4,500
Item cost pre-decimal: NULL
Item date acquired: 2007
Item institution: Shropshire Archives
Town/City: Shrewsbury
County: Shropshire

75 pencil ink and watercolour sketches, mainly of Shropshire houses and scenes, by David Parkes (1763-1833). Parkes was a prolific artist and antiquarian, and his work documents changes and alterations to many important Shropshire buildings and churches in the late 18th-mid19th centuries.

Item Provenance
Nicholas Goodyer Rare Books, London