1. Robinson, John, architect.

Architectural sketches of Italy . [manuscript]. August 1852-August 1853. 1 v., 89 sketches and watercolours, 56 views, 33 pen and pencil details, plans, etc. ; 36 cm.

A bound volume, into which are pasted pen and pencil sketches and watercolours of buildings, statues and architectural structures in Augsburg, Bologna, Vicenza, Rome, Florence, Venice and Paris. Attributed to John Robinson, 1798-1880, architect and builder, assistant of Sir James Pennethorne, the architect to the Office of Works, chiefly responsible for royal and government buildings in London in the mid-nineteenth century.

This is an album of architectural sketches and watercolours, mainly of buildings in Italy, executed on the architect's "grand tour." The volume is open at a watercolour of the Colosseum, "March 1853."

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