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Title	Pen and ink sketch of 'A Boy's Room at Harrow School', Harrow School, Harrow on the Hill, 1897
Repository	Harrow Local History Collection & Archive
Ref No	GB1102/LHC/3/4/8/17
Alt Ref No	PF23
Maker	Herbert Marshall
Date	1897
Description	Reproduction of a pen and ink sketch showing a pupil's bedroom at Harrow School in 1897. View shows chair and fireplace (centre) surrounded by sporting paraphenalia and framed photographs. A desk and bookcase are seen on the left hand side of the image. Artist's signature and date at bottom right: 'Herbert Marshall '97'. Later annotation below in red biro reads: 'A boy's room at Harrow School in the year of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee'.
Comments	The illustration is by Herbert Marshall, in Edmund Howson and George Warner, 'Harrow School'. For further contextual information see, A.W. Ball, 'Paintings, Prints and Drawings of Harrow on the Hill, 1562-1899', (Harrow, 1978), p. 159.
Format	Print
Related Material	GB1102/LHC/3/4/8/18
Related Material	GB1102/LHC/3/4/8/12
Level	Item
Location	In Storage

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