Maidstone

Date: 1840 - 1849

By: Mantell, Gideon Algernon, 1790-1852; Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: A-142-066

Description: The fossilised bones of the iguanadon as found in their slab of rock. The bones are numbered and described below Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Title in ink Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink, 372 x 268 mm Processing information: This drawing formerly located at E-330-f-120. Removed for Mantell exhibition, 1980s

Date: 1830 - 1840

From: Mantell, Gideon Algernon 1790-1852 :Scrapbook. [ca 1810-1840]

By: Bensted, William Horatio, 1802-1873

Reference: E-295-q-099

Description: View into a working quarry, with a cart and men working below and higher and a flying fox rigged up. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Sepia ink and wash 122 x 165 mm, glued to sheet 174 x 216 mm

Date: 1834 - 1839

From: Mantell, Gideon Algernon 1790-1852 :Country of the iguanodon. Ca 1830 to ca 1850.

By: Dinkel, Joseph J, active 1830s-1860s; Scharf, George Johann, 1788-1860

Reference: E-330-f-013-1

Description: The spine and other fossilised bones of the iguanodon, as found in situ, and discovered in May 1834 by Mr W H Bensted in a quarry of Kentish rag near Maidstone. The bones each have a number or letter of the alphabet beside them. Descriptive information from The Wonders of geology Vol II / G Mantell (London, 1939) Plate II. Key to bones on following page. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 209 x 137 mm on sheet 209 x 273 mm

Date: 1827-1856

By: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: Eph-D-WEBSTER-2

Description: Includes: Surrey Rotunda. Miss Lucinda Smith benefit, 6 July 1827 - includes scenes from "School for scandal", ... "The duenna", "A Bavarian girl", "Exchange no robbery!", "The rival soldiers" Theatre, Maidstone. Mr C Freeman the American giant ... [to appear in] "Monster, or the fate of Frankenstein", ... to be followed by "Day after the wedding" , after which the giant will give his celebrated illustrations of the Grecian Statues ... to conclude with "Raising the wind". 11 May 1843 Theatre, Boston; proprietor and manager John Douglas. "Ellen Wareham!" ... "Illustrious stranger"30 May 1853. ... Belphegor"; ... "Law and logic" 31 May 1853 Theatre, Boston; proprietor and manager John Douglas. "St Augustine's Priory" by Mr T Fricker; ... the laughable farce "Sergeant's wedding" ... "My wife's dentist". 8-9 June 1853 Royal Princess's Theatre, Oxford Street. The Corsican brothers ... "Harlequin and the Miller and his men!", ... 27 January 1854 . Double broadsheet Theatre, Farndon Road, Newark. Benefit of Mr and Mrs [William] Lovegrove. "King John" from the invasion of France to his death in Newark Castle. 23 May 1856 Theatre Royal Drury Lane. Mr Charles Mathews ... Grand play of W J Robson esq; "Great gun trick", "Taking by storm", "Little Toddlekins"; "Harlequin King nonsense","The seven ages of man", "The abode of love", "Bright realms of perpetual summer". Double broadsheet [1856] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, sizes up to 700 mm. Provenance: x

Date: 1875-1880

From: Marsack, Croft Augustus, 1824-1892: Memoirs and sketchbooks

By: Marsack, Croft Augustus, 1824-1892

Reference: E-973-4

Description: The fourth extant volume in a series of sketchbooks by Croft Augustus Marsack. Comprises table of contents followed by pencil and watercolour sketches numbered 141 to 175, dated 1875 to 1880. The "Index to the sketches" lists the titles as follows: - No. 141 The Napoleon Column from the Calais road. - No. 142 View on the river Stour, near Grove Ferry. - No. 143 View on the Sandwich road from opposite the 'Sportsman'. - No. 144 Entrance to Ramsgate harbour from the West Cliffs. - No. 145 Thunderstorm dyke, on the Sandwich road. - No. 146 Our house at 1 West Cliff Road. - No. 147 Kingsgate Castle. - No. 148 Quehen hill. - No. 149 View from the ramparts near the Porte Gayolle looking towards Outreau. - No. 150 The Château de Lozembrune. - No. 151 The Château d'Hesdin l'abbé, back view. - No. 152 View of the Liane near Pont Pitendal. - No. 153 The last of the four windmills on the Calais road. - No. 154 View from near the top of the hill on the old road to Outreau with the Upper Town in the distance. - No. 155 View of the way along the top of the cliffs by Pegwell Bay to the Sandwich road. - No. 156 Our house at Hereson, Dr Whiting's house, and the Cemetery in the distance. - No. 157 Guildford Lawn with St George's tower. - No. 158 Saltpans inlet with Cox's house and garden. - No. 159 Canterbury cathedral from the Railway station. - No. 160 Cox's house at Saltpans from the Sandwich Road. - No. 161 The Sous-Prefecture. - No. 162 M Cornelly's house on the Calais Road where we formerly lived. - No. 163 Thunderstorm Hole on the Liane shewing Emma sitting by the waterside. - No. 164 The Ruisseau d'Equihen, during our donkey chaise picnic, shewing Emma and Clara. - No. 165 Ashford cemetery. - No. 166 Pond near Ashford in which we fished, with Mr Wilkinson coming to join us. - No. 167 Boulogne cemetery and the cathedral tower. - No. 168 The Châtillon from the western pier, Boulogne. - No. 169 Old Toll gate house on the Sandwich road between the Coast Guard Station and Thunderstorm Dyke. - No. 170 View from our dining room window looking towards Maidstone. - No. 171 Entrance to Maidstone cemetery. - No. 172 View from our dining room window looking up the road to East Farleigh. - No. 173 Bridge over the Medway at East Farleigh. - No. 174 View on the Medway just above the locke below Maidstone. - No. 175 Old Church Dairy Farm, Great Stanmore, Middlesex, where Henry lodged. The captions from the preliminary index pages are not repeated on the sketches, which have the number inscribed in the top right and the year in the top left corner. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Ink, pencil, and watercolour, in bound sketchbook, 36 leaves of watermarked paper, quarter-bound in leather with cloth boards, blind tooling, 145 x 230 mm.

Date: 1881-1886

From: Marsack, Croft Augustus, 1824-1892: Memoirs and sketchbooks

By: Marsack, Croft Augustus, 1824-1892

Reference: E-973-5

Description: The fifth extant volume in a series of sketchbooks by Croft Augustus Marsack. Comprises table of contents followed by pencil and watercolour sketches numbered 176 to 211, dated 1881 to 1886. The "Index to the sketches" lists the titles as follows: - No. 176 Oak on the Medway near Yalding where we used to go fishing, and pond. - No. 177 Woody bank on the Medway near Yalding where we often fished. - No. 178 All Saint's church, Maidstone, from the banks of the Medway. - No. 179 View from the doorstep of Mr Wilkinson's house at Ashford, looking towards Kennington. - No. 180 The ruisseau d'Elbecq as it empties itself into the sea. - No. 181 Equihen from the seashore and M Coquetin's chateau. - No. 182 Brecquérecque and it's church, with the church of St Etienne in the distance. - No. 183 View in the cemetery, shewing old Elizabeth Hughes' grave, and the Amphitrete monument. - No. 184 Entrance to the village of Mont Lambert. - No. 185 Isques farm. - No. 186 View on the Paris road where it passes by M de Fromessent's premises. - No. 187 Our house in the Rue de la Tour Notre Dame. - No. 188 The Pons Asinorum, Vallée de Denacre, with Marianne and Emma. - No. 189 Site of the Delpierre picnic of 1862 with Henry, Marianne, and Emma. - No. 190 The Desores road through the forest, taken from the road thence to Hesdin l'abbé. - No. 191 The shell tomb in the new cemetery, with the Tour du Renard in the distance. - No. 192 Our house at St Leonards from the garden. - No. 193 M Degrmont's house in the Rue de la Coloune. - No. 194 M Achille Adam's house at St Leonards from the Liane. - No. 195 Watermill in the Vallée de Denacre, formerly the third mill. - No. 196 M Muhlberque's chateau on the Liane, front view. - No. 197 Old trees at Quéhen. - No. 198 The Château de Frencq. - No. 199 Garden of the Sous-Prefecture from the Grande Rue. - No. 200 Cape Blancuez and the bay of Wissant from Cape Grisnez. - No. 201 The Lasabloniere stream as it enters the Liane. - No. 202 The Château de Courset. - No. 203 The de Rozier and Romain monument near Wimereux. - No. 204 The Dégremont picnic in M Grandsire's warren. - No. 205 The Castle and part of ramparts from the Petits Arbres. - No. 206 Grisendal mill. - No. 207 Church and railway bridge at Wimereux. - No. 208 View from M Dégremont's workshop in the Rue de la Coloune. - No. 209 The Château de Colembert. - No. 210 Condette church. - No. 211 The Vert Ginau public house at Hesdin l'abbé. The captions from the preliminary index pages are not repeated on the sketches, which have the number inscribed in the top right and the year in the top left corner. Title supplied by Library. Inscriptions: Album page - centre - C A Marsack. [calligraphic lettering with floral decorations in ink]. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Ink, pencil, and watercolour, in bound sketchbook, 36 leaves of watermarked paper, quarter-bound in leather with cloth boards, gold tooling, 150 x 235 mm.

Date: 1834

By: Mantell, Gideon Algernon, 1790-1852; Nibbs, George H, active 1820s-1850s

Reference: B-063-038

Description: The spine and other fossilised bones of the extinct iguanadon as found in situ. Mantell has named most of the larger bones The original for Joseph Dinkel's watercolour (B-063-039) and for a lithograph, published as Plate IV in an unknown publication by G. A. Mantell. Examples of the lithograph appear on pages 13 and 31-2 of scrapbook E-330-f. This drawing is also known satirically as 'The Mantellpiece' Other Titles - The Mantellpiece [alternative title] Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - in ink: G. Nibbs Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, ink and crayon, 502 x 392 mm Transfers: Removed from scrapbook 'Country of the Iguanadon' by G. A. Mantell (E-330-f)..

Date: 1834

By: Mantell, Gideon Algernon, 1790-1852; Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: A-142-067

Description: The fossilised bones of the iguanadon as found in their slabs of rock. Dotted lines link up missing sections of some bones and most of the bones are identified, some with question-marks Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Title in ink Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 257 x 391 mm Processing information: This drawing formerly folded and located at E-330-f-121. Removed, flattened and backed for Mantell exhibition, 1980s

Date: 1834 - 1839

From: Mantell, Gideon Algernon 1790-1852 :Country of the iguanodon. Ca 1830 to ca 1850.

By: Dinkel, Joseph J, active 1830s-1860s; Hullmandel & Walton (Firm)

Reference: E-330-f-031-3

Description: The spine and other fossilised bones of the iguanodon, as found in situ, and discovered in May 1834 by Mr W H Bensted in a quarry of Kentish rag near Maidstone. The bones each have a number or letter of the alphabet beside them. Descriptive information from The Wonders of geology Vol II / G Mantell (London, 1939) Plate II. Key to bones on following page. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 85 x 148 mm on sheet 380 x 277 mm

Date: 1834

By: Mantell, Gideon Algernon, 1790-1852; Dinkel, Joseph J, active 1830s-1860s

Reference: B-063-039

Description: The spine and other fossilised bones of the extinct iguanadon as found in situ The original for a lithograph, published as Plate IV in an unknown publication by G. A. Mantell. Variant examples of the lithograph appear on pages 13 and 31-2 of scrapbook E-330-f Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Jos Dinkel fec. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 494 x 327 mm Transfers: Removed from scrapbook 'Country of the Iguanadon' by G. A. Mantell (E-330-f)..

Date: 1830 - 1845 - 1851

From: Mantell, Gideon Algernon, 1790-1852 :[Geological and zoological illustrations]. 1824-1851

Reference: E-210-q-039

Description: Four unidentified drawings of fossils. Fifth drawing is a portion of a fin (dorsal fin?) of a fish discovered at Maidstone, 1 Sep 1845 Quantity: 5 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, various sizes

Date: 1860 - 1880

From: Baker Estate :Photographs

By: West, W, active 1860s-1880s

Reference: PA2-1891

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1860 - 1880

From: Baker Estate :Photographs

By: West, W, active 1860s-1880s

Reference: PA2-1893

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1860 - 1880

From: Baker Estate :Photographs

By: West, W, active 1860s-1880s

Reference: PA2-1890

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1860 - 1880

From: Baker Estate :Photographs

By: West, W, active 1860s-1880s

Reference: PA2-1892

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).