• Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens (architect)
• Gertrude Jekyll (compiler)
• Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens (draughtsman)

"Sketches of cottages" including letters to Gertrude Jekyll

drawings executed between 1889 and 1910

- This scrapbook of miscellaneous sketches and other material drawn from the large body of documents by Lutyens were probably saved by Gertrude Jekyll, in memory of their relationship. Principally composed of sketches from the 1890s, but also includes seven sheets of correspondence from 1907 and 1909 relating to their early work at Lambay Castle, along with a few caricatures.

• dessins conceptuels
• record drawings
• technical drawings

Mostly pen and black ink, with some graphite and pen and black ink and watercolour over graphite

album (at binding): 25.3 x 18.6 x 3 cm pages (approx.): 24.5 x 18.6 cm sheets (range; many irreg.): 3.8 to 20 x 7.8 to 36.4 cm

DR1990:0009:001-021

• line drawings
• renderings
• sketches

• pictorial drawings
• plan (drawing)
• site plan
• section
• elevation (drawing)

- Album of 30 pages reinforced with tape at the binding, some of the pages having subsequently fallen out. The album is bound with red cloth over cardboard, which was later faced with marbled paper. A red leather box was acquired with the album. Most of the drawings are on irregularly trimmed scraps of paper attached to the album pages. Five sheets of letterhead have been removed from the album.

inscribed and dated - by the draughtsman, in pen and black ink, on seven sheets of letterhead paper: with the text of letters to Gertrude Jekyll inscribed - by the compiler, in pen and brown ink on the front endpaper, u.c.: "Sketches Edwin L. Lutyens / mostly in letters" inscribed - by the compiler, in pen and brown ink: with titles and notes under or on some of the sketches labelled - by an unknown hand, in pen and brown ink on a white paper label pasted to the u.c. of binding: "SKETCHES / OF / COTTAGES / E.L.L."

London; England; United Kingdom;

• architecture
• architecture de paysage

• houses
• stores
• bench
• footbridge
• terraces
• bridge (built work)
• cottages
• pump
• caricatures
• water garden