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Wittewronge and Fountaine families of Rothamsted, Harpenden: Miscellaneous family...

Catalogue reference: DE/Z55

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Reference
DE/Z55
Title
Wittewronge and Fountaine families of Rothamsted, Harpenden: Miscellaneous family and other papers, 1622 - 1907
Date
1622-1907
Description

The drawing of Rothamsted Manor House has in the past been known to have existed only because of the reproductions of it in The Victoria County History of Hertfordshire and in D H Boalch's The Manor of Rothamsted and its Inhabitants, Harpenden, 1978. Now that it has been re-discovered the relationship of the two reproductions is clearer: Boalch's drawing is a hand-drawn copy of that in the VCH, while the latter is also copied by hand presumably from the original. It is obviously from a modern copy that the VCH illustration has been reproduced; the differences between it and the original drawing suggest the VCH engraver had not seen the original

Related material

<span class="wrapper"><p>See D/ELw Z21 and Z22</p> <p>See DE/LW/MI</p></span>

Held by
Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies
Language
English
Creator(s)
  • <famname>Wittewronge family of Rothamsted, Harpenden, Hertfordshire</famname>
  • <famname>Fountaine family of Rothamsted, Harpenden, Hertfordshire</famname>
Physical description
5 series
Immediate source of acquisition

[Accession 1792]

Purchased November 1980

Custodial history

Most of the documents listed in this inventory have the appearance of having been preserved for the purpose of insertion in Caroline Lady Lawes' scrap-book and perhaps rejected later. By what route they found their way into the sale-room is not known

Unpublished finding aids
<p>This inventory has been cross-referenced to the main deposits of Lawes-Wittewronge papers [D/ELw] and the Search Room copy of that inventory has been cross-referenced to this.</p>
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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/57cbfa00-d6de-4215-9460-666904d7384b/

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Wittewronge and Fountaine families of Rothamsted, Harpenden: Miscellaneous family and other papers, 1622 - 1907