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HOWLETT, Bartholomew (1767-1827)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/255

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: HOWLETT, Bartholomew (1767-1827)

Date(s): 1800-1835

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 2 production units.

Name of creator(s): Howlett | Bartholomew | 1767-1827 | draughtsman and landscape engraver

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Bartholomew Howlett was born in Louth, Lincolnshire, and was baptized on 5 July 1767. He was apprenticed in London to the engraver James Heath, and afterwards lived in the Blackfriars area of London. His publications include A Selection of Views of the County of Lincoln (1801) and he contributed to John Britton's Architectural Antiquities of Great Britain and Robert Wilkinson's Londina illustrata. Howlett made over a thousand drawings of the original seals of monastic and religious houses for his friend and patron John Caley FRS FSA. Howlett died in 1827.

Source of information: L. H. Cust, 'Howlett, Bartholomew (1767-1827)', rev. Mary Guyatt, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Drawings of seals of monastic bodies in London, Southwark and Westminster. The drawings are by Howlett, the descriptions by his friend and patron John Caley, FRS.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Two volumes.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited in the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section, which merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: August to October 2010.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Antiquaries | Historians | Social scientists
Drawings | Visual materials
Historical research | History
Religious buildings | Buildings | Architecture
Religious communities | Religious institutions
Seals (law) | Primary documents | Documents | Information sources
Monasteries x Religious buildings
Illustrations
Religion

Personal names
Howlett | Bartholomew | 1767-1827 | draughtsman and landscape engraver

Corporate names

Places
City of Westminster | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Southwark | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe