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KELSEY, Richard (fl 1820-1837)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/139

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: KELSEY, Richard (fl 1820-1837)

Date(s): [1820]-1837

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 4 production units.

Name of creator(s): Kelsey | Richard | fl 1820-1837 | architect

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Richard Kelsey was surveyor to the City of London Commissioners of Sewers, 1832-46.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Architectural sketch and notebooks of Richard Kelsey, architect, containing annotated designs for, and sketches of, houses, theatres, prisons, bridges and sewers; plans and elevations of existing buildings by other architects, ancient and modern; drawings of medieval funeral effigies; extracts from writers on architecture and history; accounts for work done for customers; estimates; accounts for materials and workmen employed; and miscellaneous unrelated memoranda.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Four 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:

These volumes were donated to Guildhall Library in 1882. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note:

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: January to May 2011.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Architects | Artists
Architectural drawing | Drawing | Graphic arts
Architectural drawings | Drawings | Visual materials
Architectural heritage | Cultural heritage
Building design | Construction engineering
Business records | Documents | Information sources
Funerary architecture | Architecture
Illustrations

Personal names
Kelsey | Richard | fl 1820-1837 | architect

Corporate names

Places
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe