Sketchbooks

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1943-1972

15 sketchbooks of various size, covering the 1943-1972 period and containing mostly pen and ink drawings. The first volume was produced by Fletcher during 'pre-Slade' sketching tours in the Lake District, Cheshire and Lancashire in 1943-1944 and the final volume covers a tour of Italy in 1972. The other volumes feature mainly London scenes, although other locations in England and abroad are also depicted, and many of them are accompanied with Fletcher's notes on the buildings being illustrated.

2 boxes

The sketchbooks also contain loose pages.

English

The majority of this material was donated to Islington Libraries by Geoffrey Fletcher during the 1970s. Other items, as identified, were collected by staff at Islington and Finsbury borough libraries. Most of the items collected by library staff were previously placed in other areas of the Local History Centre collections, including the book, pamphlet and news cuttings collections, but were transferred to this collection in 2011.

ARTISTS, WRITERS, DRAWINGS

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