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Porter, Sir Robert Ker, (1777-1842), Knight, painter and traveller

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Surname: Porter
Pretitle: Sir
Forenames: Robert Ker
Gender: Male
Date: 1777-1842
Title: Knight
Biography: ODNB link for Porter, Sir Robert Ker (1777-1842), Knight painter and traveller
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P157115 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P23239 )
Online related resources Artists' Paper Register link for Sir Robert Ker Porter Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Sir Robert Ker Porter
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
1794-1842: corresp and papers
Kenneth Spencer Research Library
See NUC MS 60-1363
2
1801-28: (copies) letters, mainly to family members, with journals during travels in southern Russia and Persia (Phillipps MSS 14536, 14538, 14593, 14595-7, 14600, 14604, 14614, 14617, 14688, 14718-20, 14722, 14724, 14771-3, 15555, 15558, 17517)
British Library, Manuscript Collections
RP 54, 67 and and Add MSS 53791-53799
3
1828-43: corresp and letterbooks
Indiana University: Lilly Library
Porter MSS
NRA 23228

See HMC Private papers of British diplomats 1782-1900, 1985
4
1825-42: journals and letters rel mainly to period in Venezuela (copies)
British Library, Manuscript Collections
RP 273
5
1805-49: journals and corresp
Harvard University: Houghton Library
bMS Eng 1256
NRA 26791
6
1799: journal
National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services
NLW MS 12651
7
1801-03: accounts and journal of paintings and social life (1 vol)
Victoria & Albert (V&A) Museum, Department of Designs, Prints and Drawings
Searight collection
8
1817-22: journals and notebooks
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MSS 14758, 18280-83, 53791-99, 58217
9
1820-26: notes on Russia and Persia
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS Eng hist c 369, 409, d 263
10
synopsis of Marmion
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
MS.15938
11
c1796-1847: family corresp
Durham University Library and Collections
POR
NRA 24542
12
1794-1842: letters (372) to family
Huntington Library
See Guide 1982
13
1817-20: corresp with Sir Robert Liston
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
MS.5651-76
14
1821-40: (copies) letters
British Library, Manuscript Collections
RP 1415