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Sketchbook created by Audrey Amiss containing monochrome sketches in pencil, with annotations. THe subjects are people in the "Piece of Cake" cafe at Guy's Hospital.
<p>This volume has been dated by Audrey.</p>

Audrey Amiss Archive

Audrey Amiss: sketch books

1 Volume spiral bound sketchbook, "Daler A Series"; 21.7 x 14.8 cm

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: orchestera, concert scenes and landscapes (1950s)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: still life, people, landscapes, buildings, and street scenes (1950s)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: street scenes, buildings, ships, people and animals (1950s)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: people and crowds and scenes (1950s)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: animals, street scenes and people (1950s)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: people, buildings, street scenes, and dogs (1950s)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: pattern and texture designs, people, scenes and interiors (1950s)

Audrey Amiss: Sketches removed from PP/AMI/B/7 for preservation reasons

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: plants and people (1950s)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: interiors, still life, people, and landscapes (1950s)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: people, scenes, and dogs (1950s)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: interiors, still life, people and buildings (1950s)

Audrey Amiss: Sketches removed from PP/AMI/B/10 for preservation reasons

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: flowers, trees, landscapes, still life, people, and interior scenes (1950s)

Audrey Amiss: Sketches removed from PP/AMI/B/11 for preservation reasons

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: London street scenes, people, still life, and dogs (1954)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: people, landscapes, still life, buildings, and street scenes (1954-1958)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: outdoor scenes and landscapes, people and houses (1958)

Audrey Amiss: Sketches removed from PP/AMI/B/14 for preservation reasons

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: scenery, trees, buildings and still life (1950s-1960s)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: scenery, trees, people, buildings and still life (1950s-1960s)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook:  scenes, parks and buildings (1960s-1970s)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: still life, trees, and people (1960s-1970s)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: London scenes, parks and buildings / Cornwall sketches (1960s-1970s)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: London / Isle of Skye / Seaburn sketches (1960s-1970s)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: London parks, scenes and people / Seaburn sketches (1960s-1970s)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: London parks, buildings and people / Holland sketches (1960s-1970s)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: London parks, people and scenes (1960s-1970s)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: still life and unknown subjects (1960s-1970s)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: trees, parks, buses, and still life (1960s-1970s)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: lines, dots, and block colours (1960s-1970s)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: Central London scenes (1960s-1970s)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: pencil sketches applied with pressure, with pastel and watercolour (c. Mar 1963)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: pencil sketches applied with pressure, with pastel and watercolour (1960s-1970s)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: pencil and pastel sketches applied with pressure (1960s-1970s)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: pencil sketches applied with pressure (1960s-1970s)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: still life, flowers, trees, and people (1960s-1970s)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: "The small bedroom" in Audrey's flat and other interiors (1960s-1970s)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: views from windows, still life and flowers (1960s-1970s)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: flowers and fruit bowl sketches applied with heavy pressure (1960s-1970s)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: monochrome and blue sketches applied with heavy pressure (1960s-1970s)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: still life, trees, plants, and people (c.1962)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: Clapham and Brixton Streets, and still life (1970s-1980s)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: Central London tourist sites and street scenes (1970s-1980s)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: Central London tourist sites and Billy Smart's Circus (1970s-1980s)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: London tourist sites, street and park scenes, Clapham streets, and still life (1970s-1980s)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: Central London and Clapham street scenes, and still life (1970s-1980s)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: Central London streets and people, scenes from Wales, and still life (1970s-1980s)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: London park scenes and still life (1970s-1980s)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: London scenes and views from windows (1970s-1980s)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: scenes around London and Clapham (1970s-1980s)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: scenes at hospital grounds, parks and plants, and seagulls (1970s-1980s)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: sketches from Shadwell, West Yorkshire (1970s-1980s)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: flowers, hospital scenes, parks, people, and Shadwell, West Yorkshire (1970s-1980s)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: National Film Theatre, Streatham, St James' Park, Clapham Common, and London Zoo (1970s-1980s)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: South London scenes and Remembrance service in Whitehall (1970s-1980s)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: Central London scenes, classical music concerts, Fulham football grounds (1970s-1980s)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: boat race, people, flowers, buildings and parks (1970s-1980s)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: people, plants, flowers, and animals at London Zoo (1970s-1980s)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: animals at London Zoo, seagulls, cars, and people (1970s-1980s)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: animals at the Zoo, Victoria Coach Station, Doctors' waiting room, and Shadwell, West Yorkshire (1970s-1980s)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: London scenes, Greater London Horse Show, birds, people and animals (1970s-1980s)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: people, London and Scarborough scenes (1970s-1980s)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: Central London scenes, St Pauls' Cathedral, and views from windows (1970s-1980s)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: London Zoo, Tooting Bec Hospital, a queue outside a baker's shop, Oxford Street Christmas shopping (1970s-1980s)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: London scenes, London Zoo, and Tooting Bec Hospital (1970s-1980s)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: people in St. James' Park and a band in Victoria Gardens (1970s-1980s)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: people and animals (1970s-1980s)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: Tooting Bec Hospital and London Zoo (1970s-1980s)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: Fulham v Sunderland, Mary Chipperfield Circus (1970s-1980s)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: Marks and Spencer's, Swiss Centre, Hyde Park, Clapham Common, Kew Gardens, "Stephen", Regent's Park, London Zoo (1970s-1980s)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: Streatham, London Zoo, shops, Tottenham Court Road, Festival Hall, Leicester Square, St James's Park (1970s-1980s)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: Pagoda at Kew, St James's Park, dahlia, "mam" writing a letter (1970s-1980s)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: St James' Park and Greater London Horse Show (c. Aug 1971)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: Central London, Sotheby's Auction Houses, and the National Film Theatre (c.1972)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: London scenes, FA Cup Final, Strike Day, and London Zoo (c.1972-1973)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: Central London scenes, buildings and traffic, with some sketches from Paris (c.1973)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: London shows, exhibitions, parades and sporting events (c.1973)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: London Zoo and central London scenes, as well as sketches from Beirut and Istanbul (c. Jul 1973)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: London Proms, London scenes, shops and buildings, parks and London Underground (1970s-1980s)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: London Zoo, and people, buildings and buses (c.1974)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: Olympic trials at Crystal Palace and scenes from a holiday in Romania (c. 1974)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: Central London street scenes, people, and traffic, and a football match between Fulham and Cardiff (c.1974)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: Cornwall scenes, football supporters, a pond in St. James's Park, and a performance at the Royal Court Theatre (c.1974)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: scenes from a football match, courtroom sketches, a concert at Queen Elizabeth Hall, Conservative Party rally, and London scenes (c. Feb 1974)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: courtroom sketches, 1974 General Election sketches, football match, and London scenes (c. Feb 1974)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: Football match, London scenes, people and animals, sketches from a holiday in Cornwall (c. Mar 1974)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: Ducks and birds in St James's Park, a cat, people, World Cup 1974, and a protest

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: Wimbledon tennis tournament scenes, St. James's Park, World Cup 1974, Royal Festival Hall (Jun 1974)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: Wimbledon tennis tournament scenes, coots at St James's Park (Jun 1974)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: St James's Park and holiday to France (Oct 1974)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: Christmas shopping, lights and crowds, St James's Park (Dec 1974)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: central London traffic, London Zoo, views from Audrey's living room window (Dec 1975)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: central London traffic, shops and people, train journey to Leeds, views from Audrey's living room window (Dec 1975)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: people and scenes on the London Underground, a classical music concert, animals at London Zoo (1975)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: Regent's Park, Trafalgar Square, and typing pool (Jan-Feb 1976)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: Regent's Park, St. James's Park and Green Park (Feb-Mar 1976)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: "Piece of Cake", Guy's Hospital (continued), Mount Pound on Clapham Common (January/November 1995)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: daffodils, hyacinths, wild plants, traffic on Wandsworth Common (January-February 1995)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: "Anne Hathaway's Cottage", Springfield Hospital, hyacinths (January-February 1995)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: shops and traffic around Bellevue road, Wandsworth Common & Golden square in Soho (February 1995).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: Golden square in Soho, riverside walk at London Bridge & Haagen Dazs ice cream parlour (February 1995).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: Golden square in Soho, HMS Belfast "police launch" (February 1995).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: square behind Wandsworth prison, Haagen Dazs ice cream parlour & Golden Square in Soho (February-March 1995).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: Haagen Dazs ice cream parlour & Golden square in Soho (February-March 1995).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: Golden square in Soho, boats along St Katharine's dock, office blocks in Croydon & Clerkenwell Green (March 1995).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: customers at Haagen Dazs ice cream parlour, activity around Golden Square in Soho (March 1995).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: activity around Golden square in Soho, Whitgift centre in Croydon (March 1995).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: Whitgift centre in Croydon (continued), Camden High street (March 1995).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: activity around Camden high street & tube station, Clerkenwell Green and seated people around Golden square in Soho (March 1995).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: Golden square in Soho, surroundings around Wandworth prison, London Underwriters centre (March-April 1995).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: people around Golden square in Soho, Haagen Dazs in Leicester Sqaure (March-April 1995).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: surroundings of hospital at Fulham road in Chelsea, Leadenhall market, Lime Street Passage (April 1995).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: Lime Street Passage (continued), birds in Kew Gardens, Clerkenwell Green (April 1995)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: Haagen Dazs in Leicester Square (continued), birds in Kew Gardens (continued) (April 1995)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: birds in Kew Gardens (continued) (April 1995)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: Clerkenwell Green (continued), St George's Walk in Croydon, Golden Square in Soho (April-May 1995)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: St George's Walk in Croydon (continued), Camden High Street, Camden Town (April-May 1995)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: Golden Square in Soho (continued), Ship Tavern Passage, St James's Churchyard in Clerkenwell Green (May 1995)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: St James's Churchyard in Clerkenwell Green (continued), Lime Street in City of London (May 1995)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: Haagen Dazs in Leicester Square (May 1995)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: Lime Street in City of London (continued), Clerkenwell Green, Leadenhall Market (May 1995)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: City of London, Lots Road in Chelsea (May 1995)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: Lots Road in Chelsea (continued), Clerkenwell Green, Leadenhall Market (May 1995)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: Leadenhall Market (continued), Brixton (May-June 1995)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: Lots Road in Chelsea, Philpot Lane in City of London (May-June 1995)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: Philpot lane, shops around Lime street, taxi rank at Tower Hill (June 1995).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: taxis at Tower Hill (continued), activity around Golden Square in Soho, people walking around the tower of London (June 1995).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: activity around Tower hill (continued), Kew Gardens (June 1995).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: activity around High road in Brixton (June 1995).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: studies of species at the long Lake in Kew Gardens (June 1995).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: Kew Gardens (continued), outside Cafe on Camden High street (June 1995).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: activity around Camden High Street and tube station (continued) (June 1995).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: people around Camden High street & tube station, activity around Tower hill and the Churchyard at Clerkenwell Green (June 1995).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: people eating at a  terrace restaurant at St Thomas' (June 1995).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: people at an Italian Delicatessen at Limehouse, Thames Terrace restaurant at St Thomas' (June 1995).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: people eating at Thames terrace restaurant (continued), customers at an Italian delicatessen in Limehouse (June 1995).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: areas around Clerkenwell Green, people eating at Thames terrace restaurant at St Thomas' hospital (June-July 1995).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: customers at an Italian delicatessen in Limehouse (continued), diners at Thames terrace restaurant & Springfield, Wandsworth (June-July 1995).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: Churchyard at Clerkenwell Green, Wandsworth and travellers at Victoria bus station (July 1995).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: travellers at Victoria bus station (continued), Crockerton road, Springfields (July 1995).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: activity around Tower Hill (July 1995).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: activity around Tower Hill, people around Golden Square, Soho & diners at Thames Terrace restaurant St Thomas' (July 1995).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: plants and flowers around Crockerton road, Springfields, Turkish tumbler, egg coddler (July-August 1995).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: diners at Thames terrace restaurant St Thomas', surroundings around Kew gardens (July-August 1995).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: surroundings around Kew Gardens, Turkish tumbler, Chelsea harbour, diners at Allders restaurant (August 1995).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: customers at Allders cafe (August 1995).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: turnips, diners at Allders restaurant (August 1995).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: diners at Allders resturant (continued), Croydon pedestrian precinct (August 1995)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: Allders restaurant and shop window, Clerkenwell Green (August-September 1995)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: Clerkenwell Green (continued), Allders restaurant (continued), shopping centre, Piece of Cake (August-September 1995)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: Allders restaurant (continued), Croydon shopping centre (continued) (September 1995)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: Croydon shopping centre (continued), Allders restaurant (September 1995)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: Piece of Cake (September 1995)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: Terrace resturant at St Thomas', Ginghams at Kings Cross station, Victoria coach station (September 1995)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: Terrace restaurant at St Thomas' (continued) (September 1995)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: Terrace restaurant at St Thomas' (continued), Chelsea Harbour, Peter Jones (September 1995)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: customers at a coffee shop in Sloane square, Ginghams Kings Cross station (August- September 1995).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: people travelling at Victoria coach station, traffic around Fulham road (September-October 1995).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: scenery along Fulham road, Chelsea football ground and Holloway road police station (September 1995).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: Holloway road, taxis and Ginghams at Kings cross station and flowers in the garden (October 1995-May 1997).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: Holloway road police station and other buildings, Ginghams Kings cross, Persil container (October 1995-June 1997).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: activity around Ginghams Kings cross, Mount pond (November 1995-May 1997).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: Ginghams at Kings Cross station, honesty plant and species arount Mount pond at Clapham common (November 1995-May 1997).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: activity around Holloway road, tub of margarine, Persil container, Chinese tea caddy and Clapham common (November 1995-June 1997).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: sketches of water species at mount pond in Clapham common (November 1995).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: mount pond in Clapham common, devil Cactus, brown mug, bottles (November 1995-May 1997).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: species around Mount pond in Clapham Common, customers at Allders restaurant Croydon, plant frogs and flowers (November 1995-April 1997).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: diners at Allders restaurant  (continued), Peter Jones in Sloane Square, Clapham Common (November 1995-April 1997).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: Peter Jones at Sloane Square, speedboats at Chelsea Harbour, World's end Chelsea and plants (December 1995-March 1997).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: customers at BHS restaurant in Croydon, Ed's Place on King's road (December 1995).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: people around Ed's place at King's road (December 1995).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: Crane Grove, Tiger Cactus, vinegar bottle and long Lake at kew gardens (December 1995-February 1997).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: customers at a Coffee shop in Peter Jones (December 1995).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: customers at a BHS cafe in Croydon (December 1995).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: animal species around long Lake at Kew gardens (December 1995).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: Hyacinths, Batman plant, Agnes Riley Park, plants in the garden and views from Audrey's widow (December 1995-February 1997).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: Agnes Riley park, plants in the front garden, customers at Allders restaurant in Croydon (December 1995-January 1996).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: customers at Allders restaurant in Croydon, Budgie & Canary at Balham Salvation Army Hall (January 1996).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: cars around Holloway Prison, customers at Peter Jones coffee shop (January 1996).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: customers at Peter Jones coffee shop (continued) (January 1996).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: Ponies & Donkeys at Vauxhall Farm, Gravestones at a Church in Holloway road and flowers (Januay 1996).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: Jonquils (January 1996).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: activity around Strand law courts, animals at Vauxhall Farm (January 1996).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: animals at Vauxhall Farm (continued) (January 1996).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: St Mary Magdalen Churchyard, Balham Salvation Army Hall, Limehouse and King's road (January 1996).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: king's road, Shepherds Hall at St Thomas' Hospital, activity around Fleet street (January-February 1996).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: species at long Lake in Kew Gardens, Balham Salvation army  (January-February 1996).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: traffic along Fleet Street, a Budgie and Canary at Balham Salvation army (February 1996).

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: "Piece of Cake", Guy's Hospital (January 1995)

Audrey Amiss sketchbook: "Piece of Cake", Guy's Hospital (January 1995)

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