Manuscript sketchbooks and portfolios of plans

Item author: Walter Newall (Architect)
Item date: 19th century
Grant Value: 3,000
Item cost: 41,000
Item date acquired: 1991
Item institution: Dumfries Museum
Town/City: Dumfries
County: Dumfriesshire

30 sketch books and 24 portfolios of plans elevations and miscellaneous sketches in ink watercolour and pencil. Each facet of Newalls work is represented from middle class houses to farms, churches, schools, bridges, greenhouses and tombs. He also designed extremely ambitious buildings for which he had received no commission. The collection also includes letters and personal receipts. Illustrated at p.20 of AR

Item Provenance
Inherited by a nephew who emigrated to Canada: only rediscovered in 1990