INVENTORY OF THE NIKOLAUS PEVSNER PAPERS, 1919-1979
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INVENTORY OF THE NIKOLAUS PEVSNER PAPERS, 1919-1979
Accession no. 840209
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by Gene Waddell
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Nikolaus Pevsner papers
Dates: 1919-1982
Collection Number: 840209
Creator:
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Sir, 1902-
Extent:
ca. 72 linear ft.
(144 boxes)
Repository:
Getty Research Institute
Research Library
Special Collections and Visual Resources
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, California 90049-1688
Abstract:
Papers and manuscripts of the German-born art and architecture historian (1902-1983). Papers date primarily from the years
following Pevsner’s immigration to England in 1933, and include written and visual materials used for lectures or as research
for his many books and articles. Files related to Pevsner’s radio lectures and affiliations document his career as a public
figure, and correspondence tracks his relationships with many key figures in 20th-century art and architecture.
Language: Collection material in English and German
Administrative Information
Access
Open for use by qualified researchers.
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
Nikolaus Pevsner papers, 1919-1979, Getty Research Institute, Research Library, Accession no. 840209.
Acquisition Information
The Getty Research Institute acquired Pevsner's papers with his library in 1984. In addition, material was moved to the collection
from accessions 840189 and 920028. Most of the books have been separated to the Getty Research Institute Research Library.
Some heavily annotated books remain with the archive.
Biographical/Historical Note
The art and architectural historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsner (1902-1983) was born in Germany. He worked with the Dresden gallery
(1924-1928) and taught at Göttingen University (1929-1933) before immigrating to England in 1933. In England Pevsner taught
at Birkbeck College (University of London) and the Courtauld Institute, and lectured as the Slade Professor of Art at Cambridge
(1949-1955) and Oxford (1969) Universities.
Pevsner was a scholar of Italian baroque painting, German sculpture and the 19th and 20th century architecture of England
and Europe. It is as an architectural historian that he is best remembered, partly because of the astonishing amount of work
he did in this area, and also because of his strong point of view. His polemical view is evident in his early book
Pioneers of modern design (1936) in which he first tried to persuade England to accept the Modern movement. He remained a persistent advocate for modern
design and for historical preservation. Among his many publications are the following books:
An Outline of European architecture, the
History of building types, and the monumental
Buildings of England in 46 volumes, of which 35 were researched and written by Pevsner. Pevsner was an editor on the influential journal
Architectural Review and edited the Pelican History of Art series which comprised 48 volumes. He received the Gold Medal of the Royal Institute
of British Architects in 1967 and a knighthood in 1969. Pevsner died in 1983.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Nikolaus Pevsner Papers contain his research files on art and architecture, manuscripts for many of his articles and books,
correspondence with scholars, publishers and artists, lectures, and a collection of clippings and offprints of his articles.
These papers date from 1919 to 1979, with the bulk dating from his years in England. (N. B.: Penguin Press Ltd has retained
the files for
The Buildings of England.) A small file of personal items includes family correspondence, photographs, manuscripts, awards and diaries. The books
in Pevsner's library, many annotated, have been separated to the Getty Research Institute, Research Library.
Arrangement
Indexing Terms
Subjects
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Sir, 1902-
Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969
Morris, William, 1834-1896
Architectural Association (Great Britain)
Architectural guides for travelers
Courtauld Institute of Art
Gemäldegalerie (Dresden, Germany)
Great Britain. Royal Fine Art Commission
Jerusalem Committee
Omega Workshops
Penguin (Firm)
University of Cambridge
University of London
University of Oxford
Architecture
Architecture—Directories
Architecture—Education
Architecture—England—Guidebooks
Architecture—Great Britain
Architecture—Great Britain—Guidebooks
Architecture—Great Britain—History
Architecture—Great Britain—Periodicals
Architecture—Historiography
Architecture—Modern
Architecture—Periodicals
Art historians
Design
Painting, Baroque—Italy
Sculpture, German
Geographic Terms
England—Buildings, structures, etc.
England—Buildings, structures, etc.—Guidebooks
Great Britain—Description and travel
Contributors
Ashby, C. R. (Charles Robert), 1863-1942
Ebhardt, Bodo, b. 1865
Fleming, John, 1919-
Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969
Mackmurdo, A. H. (Arthur Heygate), 1851-1942
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Sir, 1902-
Pinder, Wilhelm, 1878-1947
Posener, Julius
Russell, Gordon, Sir, 1892-1980
Schlosser, Julius, Ritter von, 1866-1938
Voysey, Charles F. A., 1857-1941
Titles
Academies of art, past and present
The Architectural review
Buildings of England
Charles R. Mackintosh
Englishness of English art
A history of building types
An outline of European architecture
Penguin dictionary of architecture
Pioneers of the modern movement from William Morris to Walter Gropius
Series I.
Correspondence, 1919-1979
Physical Description:
14 boxes
7 lin. ft.
Scope and Content Note
Series contains correspondence related to Pevsner's professional activities and associations, organized in six subseries:
A) General correspondence, B) The Architectural Review, C) Publisher's Correspondence, D) Affiliations, E) Exhibitions, and
F) Additional Correspondence. (See also correspondence in Series II, IV, and VI.)
Series I.A.
General Correspondence, 1919-1979
Physical Description:
5 boxes
2.5 lin. ft.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence with scholars, architects, artists, and publishers, arranged alphabetically according to correspondent (See
also correspondence in II, IV, and VI).
Series I.B.
The Architectural Review
1945-1947
1961-1977
Physical Description:
1 box
.5 lin. ft.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and material related to architecture magazine includes editorial correspondence, information regarding war
damage in Germany and Austria, and general correspondence arranged alphabetically by correspondent. Includes letters from
Walter Gropius, Andor Gomme, Frau Erich Mendelsohn, Julius Posener, and Ala Fern.
Box 6
Letters and printed material 1945-1977
Series I.C.
Publishers correspondence, 1963-1976
Physical Description:
1 box
.5 lin. ft.
Scope and Content Note
Includes letters with publishers regarding various Pevsner articles and manuscripts (See also correspondence related to specific
publications.).
Box 7
The Johns Hopkins Press 1967-1972
Box 7
Fritz Thyssen Stiftung 1964-1974
Series I.D.
Affiliations, 1959-1977
Physical Description:
6 boxes
3.0 lin. ft.
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence related to offical commissions, committees, professional organizations, associations, historical societies,
and preservation boards with which Pevsner was affiliated.
Box 8
Advisory Board for Redundant Churches 1973-1977
Box 9
The Architectural Association 1964-1973
Box 9
Art Workers Guild Trustees 1973-1975
Box 9
British Academie 1975-1977
Box 9
Historic Buildings Council of England 1975-1977
Box 9
International Council of Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS):
Box 9
National Committee for the United Kingdom 1967-1974
Box 9
The Professional and Academic Regional Visits Organization, PARVO; 1975-1977
Box 9
Royal Fine Art Commission 1966-1973
Box 9
The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings 1967-1973
Box 9
Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain 1959-1966
Box 9
The Victorian Society 1973-1979
Box 9
The William Morris Society 1975-1978
Box 10-11
Jerusalem Committee 1970-1977
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence (Box 10) and related documents (Box 11).
Box 12
Shepheard and Epstein 1972-1973
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, documents, photos, and hearings regarding the preservation of Russell Square.
Box 13
Milton Keynes Development Corporation 1967-1971
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and Pevsner's “Preservanda and Contervanda in Milton Keynes” report regarding the preservation of the village
of Milton Keynes.
Series I.E.
Exhibitions, 1960-1975
Physical Description: 1 box .5 lin. ft.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and documents regarding Pevsner's contributions to art and architectural exhibitions.
Box 14
The Sources of Twentieth Century Exhibition, Council of Europe, 1960:
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, notes, drafts and meeting minutes.
Box 14
Art Nouveau Exhibition, The Arts Council of Great Britain, 1965
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, notes, typescripts and proof.
Box 14
Gothic Art in Europe, Council of Europe, 1968:
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, notes, drafts and documents.
Box 14
Bauhaus Exhibition, 1969
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and notes.
Box 14
Mackintosh Exhibition, Vienna, 1969:
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence.
Box 14
Victorian Church Art Exhibition, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1971:
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, lists.
Box 14
Age of neo-classicism, Council of Europe
Box 14
The Croydon Exhibition, 1975
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, documents.
Series I.F.
Additional Correspondence, 1909-1982
Physical Description:
2 boxes
1.0 lin. ft.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence arranged in chronological order, with miscellaneous notes and printed material (these items have been transfered
from the library). Most of the letters received concern complementary copies and reviews by Pevsner.
Box 14A
Corespondence, notes,
1909-1982
Box 14B
Notes, printed items,
1909-1982
Series II.
Publication Notes and Manuscripts, 1919-1974
Physical Description:
37 boxes
ca. 19.0 lin. ft.
Scope and Content Note
Series includes manuscripts, notes, correspondence, photographs, reviews, and other material related to Pevsner's books and
articles. Arranged in general chronological order by publication date.
Box 15
“Vincent Van Gogh”, 1919
Scope and Content Note
Manuscript.
Box 15
“Die Gemalde des Giovanni Battista Crespi gennant Cerano”, 1925
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence.
Box 15
“Gegeninformation und Manierismus”, 1925
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, notes.
Box 15
“Spatbarock und Rokoko: Handbuch, III teil”, n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Typescript.
Box 15
“Austellung der Akademie Dresden..”, 1927
Scope and Content Note
1 letter.
Box 15
“Beitrage zur Stilgeschichte des Fruh-und Hochbarok”, 1928
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence.
Box 15
“Die Lehrjahre des Cararaggio: 1928-1929
Scope and Content Note
Notes, Correspondence, ephemera.
Box 15
“Giulio Cesare Procaccion:”, 1929:
Scope and Content Note
Notes, correspondence.
Box 15
“Die Antwerpener Jahrhundert Ausstellung”, 1930
Scope and Content Note
Illustrations.
Box 15
“Gemeinshaft Sideals unter den Bildenden Kunstlern des 19 Jahrhunderts”, 1931
Scope and Content Note
1 letter.
Box 15
“Die wandlung um 1650 in der Italienishes Malerei, Werner Jahrbuch fur Kunstgegichte”, 1932
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence.
Box 15
“Die Deutsche Kunst und die Hoheren Schulen”, 1933
Scope and Content Note
1 letter.
Box 15
“Kunst der Gegenward und Kunst der Zukunft”, 1934
Scope and Content Note
Manuscript and correspondence.
Box 15
“Pottery”, 1936
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence.
Box 15
“The Designer in Industry”, 1936
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence.
Box 16
Pioneers of the Modern Movement from William Morris to Walter Gropius, 1935-1974
Box 16
English Editions, 1935-1974
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence: including; Faber-Faber (1936-1941, 1946-1961) and letters by Charles R. Ashbee, Walter Gropius, Josef Hoffmann,
Arthur Mackmurdo, Gordon Russell, Henry van de Velde and Charles A. Voysey (1935-1936); press cuttings; typescript forward
and correspondence for the Museum of Modern Art edition (1947-1963); forward, additions, illustrations and correspondence
for Penguin books editions, the later arranged according to correspondents (1957-1974).
Box 17
Foreign Editions, 1937-1965
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding foreign editions (1953-1965); photos (see also illustrations in: Ch. R. Mackintosh, 1950 and in:
Minor Masters of the 19th century; Christopher Dresser.., 1937); printed material.
An Inquiry into Industrial Art in England, 1937
Scope and Content Note
Letters by Gordon Russell, Frank Pick and Frank Murphy 36 items; photos; reviews.
“Minor Matters of the 19th century; Christopher Dresser, Industrial designer”, 1936,
1978
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence (1936, 1978) with Ada Nettleton Dresser and the Victoria and Albert Museum; photos.
“English and German art and their inter-relations in German life and letters”, 1937-1938:
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence with L. A. Willenghly 1937-1938.
“The First Plywood Furniture”, 1938-1939
Scope and Content Note
Manuscript, correspondence (1938-1939), notes, printed material.
Box 17
“George Walton, his life and work”, 1939
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence including letters by Frank Pick and Daisy A. Walton, 1939, photo.
Box 18
“The Elements of Contemporary Architecture in Britain - Historicism and Traditionalism”, 1939
Scope and Content Note
Typescript and manuscript, correspondence with J. H. Richards, notes, printed material, photos.
Box 18
“Ch. R. Mackintosh, A Glasgow Pioneer of Modern Architecture”, 1939
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, print.
Box 18
“Charles F. Annsley Voysey”, 1939-1947
Scope and Content Note
Original edition published in 1940. Includes typescript, correspondence (1939-1947) including letters by Charles A. Voysey
and C. Cowles Voysey, notes, photos and research material.
Box 20
Academies of Art, Past and Present, 1921-1976
Scope and Content Note
Original edition published in 1940.
Correspondence, 1931-1949,
1968-1976
Scope and Content Note
Includes letters by Walter Gropius; notes; printed material including catalogues for the Bauhaus and academies in Berlin,
Dusseldorf, Nurnberg, Dresden, Leipzig and Stuttgart.
Box 21
Schools and Academies 1921-1952
Scope and Content Note
Printed material regarding schools and academies in the United States, Holland, Great Britain, Sweden, Italy, Czechoslovakia
and Belgium.
Box 22
“Omega”, 1941:
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding the `Omega' workshops including letters by Margaret Armitage, J. M. Keynes, Frederik Etchelle, E.
M. Forster, Vanessa Bell, Margery Fry, notes, photos and printed material.
Box 22
“Schuttsschiffer von Ramaduri” (i.e. Nikolaus Pevsner), 1941
Scope and Content Note
Typescript.
Box 22
“Architecture in Germany under the Nazis by Peter F. R. Donner” (i.e. Nikolaus Pevsner), 1941
Scope and Content Note
Notes; newspaper clippings.
Box 22
“The Evolution of the Easy Chair”, 1942
Scope and Content Note
Notes; sketches; photos.
Box 22
“Patient progress: the Life work of Frank Pick”, 1941-1942
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence (1941-1942), notes and research material regarding industrial design.
Box 23
An Outline of European Architecture, 1947-1976
Scope and Content Note
Original edition published in 1942.
Box 23
New Editions 1957-1976
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence; reviews; additions, correspondence and illustrations for new editions.
Box 24
Correspondence regarding foreign editions 1947-1975
Scope and Content Note
Additions, illustrations and reviews.
Box 25
“Terms of Architectural Planning in the Middle Ages”, 1942
Scope and Content Note
Proof, notes, extracts.
Box 25
The Leaves of Southwell, 1945-1953
Scope and Content Note
Photographs by F. L. Attenborough 1945-1953; correspondence 1945-1953); reviews.
Box 25
“Visual Planning and the City of London”, 1945
Scope and Content Note
Manuscript, notes, illustrations.
Box 25
“Architecture of Mannerism”, for Geoffrey Grigsonis Mint, 1946
Scope and Content Note
Addition.
Box 25
“Frank Lloyd Wright”, 1946
Scope and Content Note
Proof.
Box 25
“Neue Baukunst und Bautradition” 1947
Scope and Content Note
Proof.
Box 26
“The Picturesque in Architecture”, 1947
Scope and Content Note
Notes.
Box 26
“Price on Picturesque”, 1949
Scope and Content Note
Notes.
Box 26
“Richard Payne Knight”, 1949
Scope and Content Note
Proof, notes.
Box 26
“Reassessment 4. Three Oxford colleges”, 1949
Scope and Content Note
see “Visual Planning...” in Box 25.
Box 26
Matthew Digby Wyatt, The First Cambridge Slade Professor of Fine Art, 1949-1950
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence (1949-1950); notes.
Box 26
“Goethe and Architecture”, 1950
Scope and Content Note
Notes.
Box 26
Ch. R. Mackintosh, 1950
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence (1948-1961), notes, printed material, illustrations; also correspondence, clippings and notes regarding the
Ingram Street tea-room article, 1953 and `No Grace for Mackintosh', 1955 (1953-1956).
Box 27
“A Century of Industrial Design and Designers”,1851-1951, 1951
Scope and Content Note
In
Designers in Britain. Includes correspondence, notes.
Box 27
High Victorian Design: A Study of the Exhibit of 1851, 1949-1978
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence (1949-1978); notes.
Box 27
The Buildings of England, 1951,
1974-1979
Scope and Content Note
Typescript and correspondence regarding 2nd edition of Nottinghamshire (1974-1979).
Box 27
“COID: Progress Report. Industrial Design: 1951, An examination of the exhibits chosen by the COID for the South Bank exhibition”,
1951
Scope and Content Note
Photos.
Box 27
“Thoughts on Coventry Cathedral”, 1952
Scope and Content Note
Notes; printed material; photos.
Box 27
“Art Furniture in the Eighteen Seventies”, 1952
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence (1949), notes, photos.
Box 28
“Colonel Gillum and the Pre Raphaelites”, 1953
Scope and Content Note
Typescript, notes, correspondence, photos.
Box 28
“A Note on the Art of the Exeter Carvers”, 1953
Scope and Content Note
Notes.
Box 28
“Old Somerset House”, 1953
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, notes, photo.
Box 28
Christopher Wren, 1632-1723,, 1954
Scope and Content Note
Manuscript, notes, correspondence, photo.
Box 28
“Hill Hall”, 1953-1955
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence (1953), notes.
Box 28
The Englishness of English Art, 1955-1975
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence (1955-1975); additions, notes, printed material (see also the Reith Lectures under BBC Talks, Box 50.
Box 28
“The Egyptian Revival”, 1951-1969
Scope and Content Note
With Susi Lang. Includes correspondence (1951-1969), notes, photos.
Box 28
“An Italian Miscellany: Pedrocchino..”, 1957
Scope and Content Note
Manuscript, correspondence, notes, photos.
Box 28
“Universities: I. Yesterday”, 1957
Scope and Content Note
Manuscript; notes.
Box 28
“A Note on the East End of Winchester Cathedral”, 1958-1960
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence (1958-1960).
Box 29
“Libraries, I.: Nutrimentum Spiritus”, 1961
Scope and Content Note
Notes and correspondence.
Box 29
The Planning of the Elizabethean Country House, 1961, May 23, 1980:
Scope and Content Note
An inaugural lecture delivered at Birkbeck college. Includes correspondence and typescript of “A Tudor Checklist” (not dated);
notes.
Box 29
“Gropius and Van de Velde”, 1962
Scope and Content Note
Notes (see also correspondence, Gropius in Box 1).
Box 30
“Gordon Russell”, 1925-1962
Scope and Content Note
Manuscript; notes; correspondence including correspondence with Gordon Russell (1958-1962); research material including catalogues
and prospectuses (1925-1959), with Pevsner's “Roots and Branches: the Story of Gordon Russell, 1961, and Gordon Russell Ltd.
archives (xerox); photos.
Box 30
The Choir of Lincoln Cathedral, 1963
Scope and Content Note
Typescript.
Box 30
“Kunzle”, 1964
Scope and Content Note
Notes.
Box 30
“Randall Wells”, 1964
Scope and Content Note
With Enid Ratcliffe. Correspondence; notes; photos.
Box 30
Introduction for Ludwig Hunz and Gustave Kunstler's
Adolf Loos..., 1965-1966
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence (1965-1966).
Box 31
The Penguin Dictionary of Architecture, 1966
Scope and Content Note
Notes; revisions.
Box 31
Correspondence related to
Penguin Dictionary of Architecture, 1966-1977
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence with John Fleming and Hugh Honour; correspondence with Penguin Books Ltd (1966-1977) and with Prestel
Verlag (1966-1970); mixed correspondence arranged alphabetically and including Alan Gowans, J. Burke, Ivor Prinsloo and Nicholas
Taylor (1966-1977).
Box 33
Introduction for Oscar Beyer's edition of
Eric Mendelsoh: Letters of an Architect, 1966-1969
Scope and Content Note
1967 edition; translation by Geoffrey Strachan. Typescript, notes, printed material, correspondence including letters by Louise
Mendelsohn and Ralph Beyer (1966-1969).
Box 33
“The Architectural setting of Jane Austen's Novels”, 1968
Scope and Content Note
Proof, notes, correspondence (1966-1968), photos.
Box 33
The Sources of Modern Architecture and Design, 1968-1969
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence (2 letters).
Box 33
Foreword for Andor Gomme and David W. Walker's
Architecture in Glasgow, 1968
Scope and Content Note
Typescript; proof.
Box 33
Foreword for Alison Smithson and Peter Smithson's
The Euston Arch and the Growth of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, 1968
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and notes.
Box 33
Foreword for William B. O'Neal's
American Association of Architectural Bibliographers, Papers, 1970, 1969-1970
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence (1969-1970); notes.
Box 33
Some Architectural Writers of the XIXth Century, 1972
Scope and Content Note
Typescripts.
Box 34
Some Architectural Writers of the XIXth Century, related material, 1969-1973
Scope and Content Note
Addenda, notes, correspondence (1969-1973), illustrations and reviews. (See also Oxford Slade Lectures in Box 57).
Box 34
“A Westminstor Cathedral Episode” with Norbert Wibiral, 1975-1976
Scope and Content Note
1976 publication. Includes manuscript, notes, correspondence (1975-1976), photos.
Box 35
The History of Building Types, 1976
Scope and Content Note
Typescripts (complete).
Box 36
The History of Building Types: Addenda; notes. 1971-1976
Box 37-41
The History of Building Types: Notes, 1965-1977
Scope and Content Note
Notes organized according to chapters: Box 37 (general, royalty, national monuments, Houses of Parliament, government buildings,
law courts, town halls), Box 38 (university buildings, libraries, museums), Box 39 (hospitals; prisons, hotels), Box 40 (exchanges,
banks, stations, theater halls, exhibition building, public baths, shops and stores and arcades), Box 41 (factories; office
buildings; warehouses, skyscrapers, houses, churches, town planning, types not done); addenda.
Box 42
The History of Building Types: Index cards, n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Index cards (bio- and bibliography data).
Box 43
The History of Building Types: Correspondence - General, 1969-1976
Scope and Content Note
General correspondence arranged alphabetically according to correspondentts or subject; includes correspondence with Thames
and Hudson and with Princeton University Press (1973-1975).
Box 44-45
The History of Building Types: Correspondence - Chapters, 1970-1974
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence arranged according to chapters and therein according to correspondents or subjects. Box 44 (national monuments,
parliaments, government buildings, law courts, town halls, theatres, libraries, museums, hospitals, prisons), Box 45 (hotels,
banks and exchanges, stations, exhibition buildings, market halls, shops and stores).
Box 46-48
The History of Building Types: Correspondence - Illustrations, 1970-1976
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding illustrations, arranged alphabetically according to correspondent. Box 46 (A-O), Box 47 (P-Z), Box
48 (copyrights and invoices).
Box 49
The History of Building Types Printed material 1955-1974
Scope and Content Note
Printed material arranged according to chapters.
Box 50
The History of Building Types: Photos, n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Photos arranged according to chapters.
Box 51
Book reviews by N. P., 1928,
1930-1932,
1949,
1957-1977
Scope and Content Note
Typescripts, correspondence and notes; includes important file for the Architect in History by M. Briggs 1930/32.
Box 52
BBC talks, 1946-1977
Scope and Content Note
Material related to the “Art for Everyone” radio talks. Includes typescripts, correspondence, letters to newspapers, clippings
from the Listener, printed material; includes the Reith Lectures (1955).
Series III.
Lectures, 1934-1978
Physical Description:
25 boxes
ca. 12.0 lin ft.
Scope and Content Note
Series contains notes, correspondence, agendae, visual aids, and other material related to Pevsner's lectures and lecture
tours. There are three subseries: A) Courtlauld Institute, Birbeck College, Cambridge, and Oxford Slade lectures, B) Special
Lectures and lecture Tours, C) Lecture Notes.
Series III.A.
Courtauld Institute, Birkbeck College, Cambridge and Oxford Slade lectures, 1934-1978
Physical Description:
7 boxes
3.5 lin. ft.
Scope and Content Note
Material includes correspondence, study schemes, student lists and lecture preparations (see also Lecture Notes).
Box 53
Courtauld Institute, 1934-1976
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence (1963-1974); examination material (1934-1976); candidates and (1958-1966); study schemes (1958-1969) (see also
Lecture notes).
Box 54
Birkbeck college, 1942-1968
Scope and Content Note
Lecture notes, bibliography, schedules, lists of students (1942-1968). See also
Planning of the Elizabethan Country House, box 29.
Box 55-57
Lecture preparations, ca. 1944-1945
Scope and Content Note
Notebooks.
Box 58
Cambridge, 1948-1978
Scope and Content Note
Lecture notes (1948-1978); see also Lecture notes and
Matthew Digby Wyatt, 1950 in Box 24.
Box 59
Oxford Slade lectures, 1967-1969
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence (1967-1969); lecture preparations (see also Some Architectural writers of the XIXth Century, 1972
in Boxes 31-32).
Series III.B.
Special lectures and lecture tours, ca. 1950-1978
Physical Description:
8 boxes
4.0 lin. ft.
Scope and Content Note
Agenda, notes, manuscripts and typescripts of lectures, and correspondence, including correspondence and clippings relating
to subsequent publication such as Palladio and
Europe (Venize, 1955),
L'Inghiererra e il Manierismo and
Palladio e il Manierismo (Vicenza, 1967), Borromini e
l'Inghieterra (Rome, 1968),
Ruskin and Violet-le-Duc (W. Neurath Memorial Lecture, 1969) Die Stadt in 19
Jahrhundert (Munich 1971). Correspondents include Alford Albini, Marcia Allentuck, Alf Boe, Henry R. Hitchcock, Hans Kaufmann, Brian
Knox, P. Douglas Knowles, Susi Land, Stephen Tschudi Madsen, Michael McCarthy, William B. O'Neal, Anna Zador (see also 3.
Lecture notes).
Box 60
Maitland Historical Society, 1950
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding lecture on Anglo-Saxon art.
Box 60
Society of Antiquaries: “The Warwick Giltern”, 1952-1953
Scope and Content Note
(Abandoned.) Includes Correspondence, notes, printed material, photos.
Box 61
Australia and New Zealand, 1958
Box 63
Miami, 1963.
Scope and Content Note
AIA Convention.
Box 63
Rome, 1964.
Scope and Content Note
Italia nostra.
Box 63
Aachen, 1965
Scope and Content Note
Council of Europe.
Box 63
Hungary and Yugoslavia, 1965
Box 64
Vicenza, 1967
Scope and Content Note
Centro Internationale di Studi Architectura Andrea Polladio. Correspondence (1966-1969),
L'Inghilterra e il Manierismo and Palladio e il Manierismo Manuscript, typescript and notes.
Box 64
Rome, 1967:
Scope and Content Note
Convegno di Studi Borrominiani Academia, Nazionale di San Luce. Correspondence (1966-1968), Manuscript and typescript.
Box 64
Smith College, 1968:
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding agenda and publication of
Robert Willis lecture; memorabilia.
Box 64
Walter Neurath Memorial lecture, 1969
Scope and Content Note
Ruskin and Viollet-le-Duc: correspondence.
Box 64
Zagreb, 1969
Scope and Content Note
300th anniversary of University of Zagreb.
Box 65
Mellon Lectures, 1970:
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, lecture notes, slide lists, photos, clippings, memorabilia. See also
The History of Building Types.
Box 65
Southwestern State University in Great Britain, 1971
Box 65
Munich, 1971
Scope and Content Note
Die Stadt in 19 Jahrhundert Symposium. Correspondence, notes, agenda, proofs.
Box 65
Cuno Amiet, 1971.
Scope and Content Note
Giacometti Exhibition Opening speech, Cambridge.
Box 66
Dumbarton Oaks: The Picturesque Garden and its influence outside the British Isles, 1972.
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence with Anna Zador, Michael McCarthy, Marcia Allentuck, Brian Knox and Susi Lang, transcription of tape,
notes, and memorabilia.
Box 66
Columbia University, 1972
Scope and Content Note
Mathews Lectures.
Box 67
America, 1972
Scope and Content Note
Victorian Society lectures.
Box 67
East Germany, 1976-1977
Scope and Content Note
“Buildings of England” [1977] typescript.
Box 67
Convocation lecture: Social Aspects of Architecture, 1978
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence.
Series III.C.
Lecture notes, n.d.
Physical Description:
10 boxes
5.0 lin. ft.
Scope and Content Note
Organized and indexed by Pevsner according to periods and countries; also contains correspondence, bibliographical material
and clippings.
Box 70
Antiquity and Middle Ages (General)
Box 72
Modern architecture and design
Box 76
Britain III; Architectural theory (Pugin and after)
Series IV.
Research Material: Abstracts, 1920-1962
Physical Description:
14.0 lin. ft.
28 boxes
Scope and Content Note
Labeled as: Vorlesung S-S or W-S (lecture notes) or (Excerpts). Reading notes, biographical and bibliographical data, occasional
correspondence and clippings organized according to subject by Pevsner. There are four subseries: A) History, philosophy,
and literature, B) Art history: origins to XVIIIth Century, C) Art history, XIX-XXth Century, and D) Miscellanies.
Series IV.A.
History, philosophy and literature, 1912-1951
Physical Description:
3 boxes
Scope and Content Note
Contains clippings, notes, and other materials on various non-art or architecture-related topics.
Box 78
Philosophy and religion, 1912-1942
Box 79
History of Science, agriculture, botany, 1912-1951
Box 79
Trade and industry, 1922-1951
Box 80
Literature, history of literature and intellectual history, 1919-1944
Series IV.B
Art history: origins to XVIIIth century, 1919-1977
Physical Description:
13 boxes
6.5 lin. ft.
Scope and Content Note
Contains clippings, photographs, printed material, notes, and correspondence related to the history of art and architecture
from antiquity to the 18th century.
Box 81
Art history, 1921-1962
Scope and Content Note
Antiquity, ancient Orient, Roman, early Christian and Byzantine.
Box 82
Medival, Mannierism, applied art, furniture, iconography, 1921-1965
Box 83
Architecture, 1944-1955
Scope and Content Note
General, whole countries including United States, Spain and Portugal.
Box 84
Italy, 1938-1970
Scope and Content Note
Architecture (early Christian to Baroque); Sculpture (Romanesque).
Box 85
Painting and sculpture, 1921-1977
Scope and Content Note
(Renaissance and Baroque).
Box 86
Germany, 1919-1968
Scope and Content Note
Medieval Sculpture, painting and architecture.
Box 87
XVth-XVIIth century sculpture and painting
Box 88
France, 1927-1975
Scope and Content Note
Painting, sculpture and architecture (Medieval to XVIIIth century).
Box 89
Dutch and Flemish painting (XIVth XVIIth century), 1921-1930
Box 90
Britain, 1944-1951
Scope and Content Note
Prehistoric, AngloSaxon, Norman; Medieval architecture.
Box 91
Britain, 1950-1958
Scope and Content Note
Medieval architecture (English vaults/St. Stephen's controversy, Secular architecture); Medieval painting and sculpture.
Box 92
Britain, 1941-1973
Scope and Content Note
1600-1820 (General); XVIth-XIXth century painting.
Box 93
Britain
Scope and Content Note
Architecture (1600-1830) and minor art, 1950-1951,
n.d.
Series IV.C
Art history: XIX-XXth century,
1906-1977
Physical Description:
6 boxes
3 lin. ft.
Scope and Content Note
(Index in Box 94). Contains clippings, photographs, printed material, notes, and correspondence related to the history of
art and architecture in the 19th and 20th century.
Box 94
[I] XIXth century painting and sculpture, 1943-1968,
n.d.
Box 94
[II] Art theory and aesthetics, 1947-1976,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence and notes about John Broad's Clio, 1961-1962.
Box 94
[III] Architectural theory, 1955-1976,
n.d.
Box 95
[V] Victorian: General, 1963-1973,
n.d.
Box 95
[VI] Victorian: XIXth century architecture, 1956-1976,
n.d.
Box 95
[VII] Victorian: William Morris, 1941-1947
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence with Fred. J. Mayers and J. Scarrett Rigby; the Arts and Crafts Movement.
Box 96
[VII] Victorian: William Morris, 1939-1969,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Printed material and photos.
Box 97
[VIII] Victorian: British Museum, 1906-1964
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Early iron (used for
Pioneers, New York edition, including notes and correspondence with Erika Hellich (1948-1949), model housing; non conformist churches.
Box 97
[X] Victorian: town planning (England - continent), 1941-1964,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Victorian architects (biographical material arranged alphabetically according to architect).
Box 97
[XI] Early XXth century, 1934-1974,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Includes reading on
Pioneers arranged alphabetically.
Box 98
[XIII] Gothic revival, neo oriental, neo Egyptian, neo Jacabean, neo Moorish, 1953-1977
Box 98
[XIV] Victorian history and culture, Victorian taste, design, typography, 1948-1974,
n.d.
Box 98
Early Modern and modern architecture and painting, ca. 1920s-1966
Scope and Content Note
Includes material on Walter Gropius and on town planning.
Box 99
The Architect in history, 1912-1949,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence with Julius Schlosser and Burkhard Meier.
Box 99
Social Aspects of Art, n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Statistics.
Box 99
Thomas Mann, 1921-1977
Scope and Content Note
Includes notes and printed material.
Series IV.D
Miscellanies, 1927-1976
Physical Description:
6 boxes
3 lin. ft.
Scope and Content Note
Subseries contains notes, index cards, magazines, lists, and various other materials Pevsner used for research and reference.
Box 100-101
Biographical data, n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Index cards): Box 100 (A-I), Box 101 (K-Y).
Box 102
Register of artists, n.d.
Box 102
Architectural magazines, 1938,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Copies of extracts from 1828-1930.
Box 102
Country Life, 1926,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
General extracts. Also includes index of memorabilia.
Box 103-104
Notes, 1929-1976
Scope and Content Note
Arranged alphabetically according to country or subject: Box 103 (A-K), Box 104 (N-Y).
Box 105
Travel notes, 1930-1951
Scope and Content Note
(notes on museums).
Box 105
Bibliographical material, 1927-1956
Scope and Content Note
(miscellaneous lists).
Series V.
Research Material: Illustrations - Printed Material, 1921-1977
n.d.
Physical Description:
28 boxes
14.0 lin. ft.
Scope and Content Note
Series includes photographs, clippings, pamphlets, books, postcards, and other printed material Pevsner used for research
and as illustrations for his writings and lectures.
Photograph and clipping files:
Box 106
Austria; France, 1932-1965,
n.d.
Box 108
Great Britain, 1931-1975,
n.d.
Box 109
Great Britain (XIX - XX), 1931-1972,
n.d.
Box 110
Hungary; Turkey, 1931-1970,
n.d.
Box 111
USA; Yugoslavia and Miscellaneous, ca. 1915-1965
Box 112-131
Post and collection, ca. 1923-1977
Box 132
Pamphlets and offprints, 1921-1976
Box 133-134
Annotated books, 1954-1958,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Includes Colvin's
Biographical Dictionary of English Architects, 1660-1840 (1958) and Hart's
Giulio Romano (1958).
Box 134
Unpublished material submitted to Pevsner, ca. 1967-1970
Series VI.
Personal File, 1918-1979
Physical Description:
2 boxes
1.0 lin. ft.
Scope and Content Note
Series contains correspondence, awards, commendations, diaries, poems, short stories, notes, and other personal materials.
Box 135
Correspondence, 1919-1979
Scope and Content Note
Personal letters received by Pevsner or members of his family; includes a number of letters from his mother in Leipzig, 1937-1942,
a letter from Thomas Mann, 1919 relating to his “Betrachtungen eines Unpoliteschen” (see also II: `Beitrage zur Stilgeschichte
des Fruh - und Hochbarok', 1928).
Box 135
Personal notes, ca. 1970s,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Early notes, some with literary references; autographs; memorabilia.
Box 135
Manuscripts:
Scope and Content Note
Short stories and poems, one dedicated to Thomas Mann (1918-1919).
Box 135
Awards and honorary degrees, 1974-1979
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, agenda, speech notes.
Series VII.
Articles Collection, 1923-1978
Physical Description:
7 boxes
3.5 lin. ft.
Scope and Content Note
Clippings are mainly from German periodicals; many are mounted in books. Articles are on various aspects of art and architecture,
some in German and others in English. Boxes 140-143 contain two identical sets of Xerox copies of Pevsner's newspaper cuttings
and offprints.
Box 137
Collection of clippings and offprints of Pevsner's articles, 1923-1935
Box 137
Clippings and offprints, 1923-1942
Box 138
Clippings and offprints,
1936-1949
Box 139
Clippings and offprints, 1950-1978
