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Title
Date(s)
- [1820s] (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
174 ff. (numerous blank leaves, including ff. 118-159, 161-172); an additional 3 pencil and chalk drawings of Classical subjects are kept loosely with the volume (NLW MS 23988iB) ; 180 x 110 mm.
Contemporary red half morocco.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Archival history
'Harriette Grant, Gnoll Castle, Glamorganshire' (f. 2).
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Bonham's; Oxford; Purchased at auction, lot 521; 3 December 2008; 004603384.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
A manuscript album, entitled 'An Omnium Gatherum' (f. 1 verso), compiled during the 1820s (dated 1822 and 1826 on ff. 73 verso, 106) by Harriette Grant (1789-1863; later Harriette Wingfield Stratford), daughter of Henry Grant (1743-1831) of Gnoll Castle, Glamorgan. The volume includes literary excerpts, antiquarian notes, riddles, and poems, written in English, French and Welsh, together with numerous well-executed watercolur, ink and pencil studies, some noted as being 'after Rembrandt' (ff. 1 verso, 7 verso, 10, 16, 17 verso).
The drawings include views of the Vale of Ebbw from Abercarne (f. 5), Neath Castle (f. 40), view from the fishing stool at Gnoll (f. 41 verso), Llantwit Church from the terrace at Gnoll Castle (f. 58), the upper lodge at Gnoll (f. 69), part of the chapel of Neath Abbey (ff. 78 verso, 80), Arthur's Stone in Gower (f. 81 verso), a female Glamorgan peasant (f. 98), a male Welsh peasant (f. 99), Briton Ferry Church (f. 100 verso), a female peasant (f. 104), Gnoll Castle (f. 105 verso), and Melin Crython (f. 160).
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
- English
- French
- Welsh
Script of material
Language and script notes
English, French, Welsh;
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Notes area
Note
Original title.
Note
Preferred citation: NLW MS 23988B.
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Access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Gnoll Castle (Neath, Wales) (Subject)
- Melin Crythan (Neath, Wales : Mill) (Subject)
- Neath Castle (Neath, Wales) (Subject)
- Neath Abbey (Neath, Wales) (Subject)
- St. Mary's (Church : Briton Ferry, Wales) (Subject)
- St. Illtyd (Church : Llantwit Major, Wales) (Subject)
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Rules and/or conventions used
Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation revision deletion
July 2009.
Language(s)
- English
Script(s)
Sources
Archivist's note
Description compiled by Maredudd ap Huw;