GOSDEN, Thomas (1780-1843)
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 0074 CLC/250 |
Held at | : London Metropolitan Archives Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma › |
Full title | : GOSDEN, Thomas (1780-1843) |
Date(s) | : 1843 |
Level of description | : Collection |
Extent | : 2 production units. |
Name of creator(s) | : Gosden | Thomas | 1780-1843 | artist and illustrator |
Context
Administrative/Biographical history:
Thomas Gosden was born in 1780 and died in 1843. He was an artist and book illustrator; and it seems he ran a shop called the 'Sportsman's Repository', 18, Bedford Street, Covent Garden.
Content
Scope and content/abstract:
Watercolour drawings of the grave monuments of 'celebrated persons' in London, Middlesex, Surrey and Kent, by Thomas Gosden.
Access & Use
Language/scripts of material:
English
System of arrangement:
Volume One: London and Middlesex; Volume Two: Surrey and Kent.
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
Related material:
The British Library holds several of Gosden's illustrations of gravestones.
Publication note:
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:
August to October 2010.
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