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Three sketches of sailing craft (on reverse and inverted) (Drawing)
Slight sketch of a beach with a pier, a rowing boat and figures with another walking (Drawing)
Rough sketch of three sailing vessels at sea (Drawing)
Rough sketch of houses with figures, one painting at an easel (Drawing)
Annotated sketch of sailing craft off a harbour wall (on reverse) (Drawing)
Nelson Dawson Sketchbook, 1915. Venetian views. Volume 33 (Sketchbook)
Very slight sketch of sailing craft (on reverse) (Drawing)
Nelson Dawson Sketchbook. Undated. Possibly Scottish scenes. Volume 43 (Sketchbook)
View of quayside with lighthouse (on reverse) (Drawing)
Sketch of a rowing boat at sea, with figures (Drawing)
Slight sketch of several sailing craft at sea (Drawing)
Sketch of a church in a landscape, Wykeham, annotated (Drawing)
Two sketches of woman in traditional dress (on reverse) (Drawing)
Rough slight sketch of sailing vessels with a boat in the foreground and lighthouse beyond (Drawing)
Slight sketch of Whitby salmon fishers in rowing boats - July 1935 (Drawing)
Sketch of a church at Ganton (Drawing)
Slight sketch of various vessels and a buoy (Drawing)
Thirteen small sketches of rowing boats in various positions on the waves (Drawing)
Nelson Dawson Sketchbook, ca.1910. North French Coast, Whitby. Volume 18 (Sketchbook)
Nelson Dawson Sketchbook, 1899. Volume 13 (Sketchbook)
Sketch of a ship having entered a harbour with a lighthouse on the pier each side, with colour notes (Drawing)
Sketch of sailing craft (on reverse) (Drawing)
Rough unfinished sketch of a sailing vessel (inverted) (Drawing)
Very rough faint unidentified sketch (Drawing)
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