Floating colours
George Finlay’s collection of books spans from the 1790s to 1870s, a period when marbled paper flourished and when many new techniques were introduced by marbling firms keen to outdo […]
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Creating order: first steps in the archival arrangement of the Mervyn R. Popham Personal Papers
Hello! I’m Kate Wilson, a MARM (Masters of Archives and Records Management) student from the University of Liverpool. In January this year, I came over to the British School at […]
William Gell’s inseparable friend, the Hon. Richard Keppel Craven
There is one sketch-book in the archives of the BSA which is closely connected to the William Gell notebooks. Bound in red leather and measuring 26 x 14 cm, it […]
The William Gell notebooks at the BSA
Or will the gentle dilettanti crew Now delegate the task to digging Gell, That might limner of a bird’s-eye view, How like to nature let his volumes tell; Who can […]