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Collection of drawings of Gibraltar, [1756-1780].

BIB_ID
334029
Accession number
MA 3325.16-19
Creator
White, John, 1727-1780.
Display Date
[1756-1780].
Credit line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cremin, 1975.
Description
1 v. (4 drawings), bound ; 39.5 cm
Notes
John White, brother of naturalist Gilbert White of Selborne, was a military chaplain at Gibraltar for sixteen years from 1756 to 1772.
Provenance
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cremin in 1975.
Summary
Being a collection of four pencil drawings of Gibraltar which were included in John White's "The Introduction to Fauna Calpensis (A Natural History of Gibraltar and Southern Spain);" the legends for the drawings are in ink. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see related records for more information.