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Discovering the Landscape #6: Susan and Geoffrey Jellicoe catalogues now available online!

Author
Claire Wooldridge
Published Date
September 1, 2014

<<<<Written by Claire Wooldridge, Landscape Institute Library Officer

AR JEL DO1 S2/20
Drawing showing design for 1993 at Shute House, Donhead St Mary, Wiltshire

Drawings donated to the Landscape Institute by Geoffrey Jellicoe and the photographic collection of Susan Jellicoe are now catalogued and are available to search via our online catalogue and by collection in PDF format (Geoffrey Jellicoe, Susan Jellicoe).

These fantastic collections cover landscape architecture and landscape history across Europe and beyond.  Both Susan and Geoffrey Jellicoe were highly influential in the field of landscape architecture and played significant roles in the Institute of Landscape Architects (now the Landscape Institute) and the International Federation of Landscape Architects (Geoffrey acting as president of both institutions at different times from the later 1930s).

The drawing above is from the Geoffrey Jellicoe collection, a drawing showing his 1993 design for Shute House, Donhead St Mary, Wiltshire (AR JEL DO1 S2/20).

Below are a few examples from Susan Jellicoe’s photographic collection, include images of Venice (P JEL PH2/A/6/12), Cliveden (P JEL PH2/L/8/18 relating to our Nancy and Waldorf Astor material) and Geoffrey’s memorial to John F. Kennedy at Runnymede (P JEL PH2/L/8/64).

Susan Jellicoe, Venice, P JEL PH2 A_6_12
Susan Jellicoe, Venice, P JEL PH2 A_6_12

 

Susan Jellicoe, Cliveden, P JEL PH2 L_8_18
Susan Jellicoe, Cliveden, P JEL PH2 L_8_18
P JEL PH2 L_8_64
Susan Jellicoe, Runnymede, P JEL PH2 L_8_64

 

We are delighted these fantastic collections are now searchable!  Please direct any enquiries to merl@reading.ac.uk.

 

 

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