Ashmolean Museum: Sutherland Collection - summary list of collection by type

Summary list of the collection, by type

The collection contains, in addition to items of lesser importance:

1. Major extra-illustrated volumes (i.e. catalogued volumes) and accompanying bound volumes of prints

a. Alexander Hendras Sutherland's collection

Anthonis van den Wyngaerde, The Panorama of London	Sutherland 51
Clarendon, The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, and The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon, illustrated	Sutherland 69 ff
Gilbert Burnet, History of his Own Time, illustrated	Sutherland 118 ff
Large Prints and Drawings	Sutherland 168-71

b. Charlotte Sutherland's collection

Dibdin, The Bibliographical Decameron	Sutherland 14-16
Dibdin, Aedes Althorpianae	Sutherland 17-18
Dibdin, A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany	Sutherland 19-22
Orford, A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, Scotland, and Ireland	Sutherland 23-43
Hamilton, Memoirs of Count Grammont	Sutherland 65-6
Delany, Letters from Mrs. Delany … to Mrs. Frances Hamilton	Sutherland 68
Reynolds, The Life and Times of Frederick Reynolds	Sutherland 82-5
Coxe, Travels in Switzerland, and in the Country of the Grison	Sutherland 151-5
Miscellaneous Prints and Drawings	Sutherland 166 ff

The extent to which volumes are extra-illustrated can be expressed as the ratio between extra-illustrations and text pages, as in the second column of the following table. This lists the extra-illustrated works in descending order of richness of illustration:

Item	Prop’n of ill’ns	Coll’n
Burnet, History of his Own Time	4.939	1837	Sutherland 118 ff
Clarendon, The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, and The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon	4.087	1837	Sutherland 69 ff
Orford, A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, Scotland, and Ireland	1.878	1843	Sutherland 23-43
Delany, Letters from Mrs. Delany … to Mrs. Frances Hamilton	0.97	1843	Sutherland 68
Reynolds, The Life and Times of Frederick Reynolds	0.712	1843	Sutherland 82-5
Coxe, Travels in Switzerland, and in the Country of the Grison	0.67	1843	Sutherland 151-5
Dibdin, The Bibliographical Decameron	0.383	1843	Sutherland 12-16
Hamilton, Memoirs of Count Grammont	0.37	1843	Sutherland 65-6
Dalrymple, An Account of the Preservation of King Charles II	0.223	1839	Sutherland 47
Heath, A Brief Chronicle Of the Late Intestine War	0.076	1839	Sutherland 44-5
Dibdin, A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany	0.063	1843	Sutherland 19-22
Worlidge, A Select Collection of Drawings from Curious Antique Gems	0.032	1843	Sutherland 10-11
Fox, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Stephen Fox	0.013	1839	Sutherland 67
Shakespeare, The Dramatic Works, revised Steevens	0.01	1839	Sutherland 104-12
Dibdin, Aedes Althorpianae	0.004	1843	Sutherland 17-18

2. Collections of prints preserved intact or collected in their own right

Worlidge, A Select Collection of Drawings from Curious Antique Gems	Sutherland 10-11
The British Gallery of Contemporary Portraits	Sutherland 86-7
Earlom after Claude, Liber Veritatis	Sutherland 88-90
Select Views of London and its Environs	Sutherland 149
Woodburn, Ecclesiastical Topography	Sutherland 150
Bensley, Select Views in Mysore	Sutherland 156
Faber after Kneller, The Kit-Cat Club	Sutherland 162
Rigaud, Veuës de France	Sutherland 163
Swinburne, Picturesque Tour through Spain	Sutherland 164
Miller and Shaw, Cimelia Physica	Sutherland 165
A Collection of Prints … Illustrating the Dramatic Works of Shakspeare	Sutherland 172-3

3. Rare books

Dillon, The Lord Mayor’s Visit to Oxford	Sutherland 49
Marceline, Epithalamium Gallo-Britannicum (with the large frontispiece)	Sutherland 91

4. Catalogues, indexes and other source material for the collection

Catalogue of the Sutherland Collection (large-paper edition; the copy that accompanied the collection)	Sutherland 1-3
Catalogue of the Sutherland Collection (small-paper edition)	Sutherland 4-6
Catalogue of the Sutherland Collection (small-paper edition)	Sutherland 7-9
Catalogues of print sales	Sutherland 55-60
Clarendon, The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England (used by A.H. Sutherland to compile his notes)	Sutherland 126-9
Burnet, History of his Own Time (used by A.H. Sutherland to compile his notes)	Sutherland 130-31
A.H. Sutherland, Rough Index to Clarendon and Rough Index to Burnett, MS	Sutherland 132
A.H. Sutherland, Index to Illustrated Clarendon, MS	Sutherland 133
A.H. Sutherland, Index to Illustrated Burnett, MS	Sutherland 134
A.H. Sutherland, Wants in the Clarendon, MS	Sutherland 133*
A.H. Sutherland, Wants in the Burnett, MS	Sutherland 134*
C. Sutherland, General Index to Prints, MS	Sutherland 135

5. Assorted works, largely antiquarian in nature, of no apparent significance for the collection

(Not listed here; see the page listing the entire collection by shelfmark.)

Pages with additional information

the entire collection, listed by shelfmark
a summary list arranged by date of deposit (i.e. reflecting the categories within which Mrs Sutherland seems to have conceived of the collection)
a note on the extra-illustrations within the collection
a summary list of sale catalogues within the collection

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