[Abel Chapman's Sudan sketchbooks]
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- Publication date
- 1913
- Topics
- Chapman, Abel, 1851-1929 -- Travel -- Sudan, Natural history -- Sudan -- Pictorial works, Animals -- Sudan -- Pictorial works, Birds -- Sudan -- Pictorial works, Sudan -- Description and travel -- Pictorial works
- Collection
- biodiversity
- Contributor
- Smithsonian Libraries
- Language
- English
- Volume
- [v.1] Sudan ii (1913)
4 sketchbooks (approximately 150 leaves of drawings) ; sketchbooks 18 cm., in clamshell box 21 cm
Pencil sketches of wildlife and local scenery created by Abel Chapman during his travels in Sudan in 1913, 1914, and 1919. In some cases the sketches include captions describing the place and date when the subject was seen, as well as brief notes on colors, posture and other characteristic features
Collective title devised by cataloger
Each sketchbook has a handwritten label on its front cover: [1]. Sudan ii (dated Feb. 10, 1913 inside front cover); [2]. Sudan 1913-4, vol. i ("begin Nov. 20, 1913, finish Jan. 29, 1914" inscribed inside front cover); [3]. Sudan, 1913-4, vol. ii (dated Feb. 2, 1914 inside front cover); and [4]. Sudan, 1919 (dated Febr[uar]y 1919 inside front cover)
The sketchbooks were digitized as part of the Smithsonian Field Book Project
Abel Chapman was an English big-game hunter and naturalist, particularly interested in ornithology. He traveled extensively in Portugal, Spain, Morocco, Scandinavia, South Africa and Sudan, and collected specimens of wildlife for the Natural History Museum in London
Forms part of: Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Institution. Libraries)
Many of the sketches were used as the basis for the illustrations in: Savage Sudan: its wild tribes, big-game and bird-life / Abel Chapman. London : Gurney and Jackson, 1921
Pencil sketches of wildlife and local scenery created by Abel Chapman during his travels in Sudan in 1913, 1914, and 1919. In some cases the sketches include captions describing the place and date when the subject was seen, as well as brief notes on colors, posture and other characteristic features
Collective title devised by cataloger
Each sketchbook has a handwritten label on its front cover: [1]. Sudan ii (dated Feb. 10, 1913 inside front cover); [2]. Sudan 1913-4, vol. i ("begin Nov. 20, 1913, finish Jan. 29, 1914" inscribed inside front cover); [3]. Sudan, 1913-4, vol. ii (dated Feb. 2, 1914 inside front cover); and [4]. Sudan, 1919 (dated Febr[uar]y 1919 inside front cover)
The sketchbooks were digitized as part of the Smithsonian Field Book Project
Abel Chapman was an English big-game hunter and naturalist, particularly interested in ornithology. He traveled extensively in Portugal, Spain, Morocco, Scandinavia, South Africa and Sudan, and collected specimens of wildlife for the Natural History Museum in London
Forms part of: Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Institution. Libraries)
Many of the sketches were used as the basis for the illustrations in: Savage Sudan: its wild tribes, big-game and bird-life / Abel Chapman. London : Gurney and Jackson, 1921
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- Addeddate
- 2019-07-03 13:40:45
- Associated-names
- Chapman, Abel, 1851-1929. Savage Sudan; H. W., former owner; Aug. Walker (firm), bookseller; Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries); Smithsonian Field Book Project
- Call number
- 39088017896549
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- Identifier
- abelchapmanssuda11913chap
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- Identifier-bib
- 39088017896549
- Invoice
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- Possible copyright status
- Not in copyright. The BHL knows of no copyright restrictions on this item.
- Ppi
- 650
- Republisher_date
- 20190715170034
- Republisher_operator
- associate-daniel-euphrat@archive.org
- Scandate
- 20190715153057
- Scanner
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- Scanningcenter
- washingtondc
- Title_id
- 1032076
- Worldcat (source edition)
- 893907785
- Full catalog record
- MARCXML
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