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Title and statement of responsibility area
Title proper
Lettering
General material designation
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Level of description
File
Reference code
CA CAC 1-1-65
Edition area
Edition statement
Edition statement of responsibility
Class of material specific details area
Statement of scale (cartographic)
Statement of projection (cartographic)
Statement of coordinates (cartographic)
Statement of scale (architectural)
Issuing jurisdiction and denomination (philatelic)
Dates of creation area
Date(s)
Physical description area
Physical description
40 drawings : 1 ink on linen, 1 ink on paper, 22 pencil on paper, 3 watercolour on paper, 12 blueprints, 1 black line
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Archival description area
Name of creator
(1875-1964)
Custodial history
Scope and content
File consists of drawings of lettering, including 9 development drawings (alphabets, numbers, tablet) and 31 detail drawings of alphabets, numbers, tablets, and war memorial. Also includes file folder containing article and clippings.
Notes area
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General note
Included are examples of alphabets on printed pages.
General note
Among Nobbs’s architectural drawing folders is a collection of lettering which he used for leaded letters for inscription on tablets or incised lettering in building stonework. These drawings in pencil, ink, watercolor, black line or blueprint include examples of letters of the alphabet or numbers, and in several cases we find inscriptions which relate to specific projects and clients such as Christ Church Cathedral, Church of St. Andrews and St. Paul, The Cutlers Company of Sheffield, Francis John Shepherd, Major Ferdinand George Macculloch and Sir Wilfrid Laurier.
Alternative identifier(s)
Nobbs database project ID
65
Nobbs database op number
0315