Sketches and sketchbooks by Cecil Collins

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 70 TGA 200015/3/1
  • Dates of Creation
      [c 1930s-1980s]
  • Physical Description
      6 folders

Scope and Content

This series consists of sketchbooks, loose sketches, proofs of book illustrations, and facsimilies and reproductions of works by Cecil Collins.

It includes: one sketchbook by Cecil Collins with preliminary drawings for illustrations for 'Psalms, The Book of Ezekiel and Song of Solomon', for the Oxford Illustrated Old Testament (c 1968); one sketchbook by Cecil Collins with designs for the altarpiece, 'The Icon of Devine Light', at Chichester Cathedral (c 1972-1973); one folder of loose sketches by Cecil Collins; one folder of proof book illustrations by cecil Collins; and two folders of facsimilies and reproductions of works by Cecil Collins.

Arrangement

Items are arranged as follows:

Sketchbooks

Loose sketches

Book illustrations

Facsimilies and reproductions of works by Cecil Collins