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.