Prunella Fraser

Prunella Fraser (died 2016) was an architectural historian, writer, and archivist, and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.[1] She worked on the cataloguing of architectural drawings at the Royal Institute of British Architects.[2]

Career

While working at the Royal Institute of British Architects, Fraser invented a fixed format to catalogue the RIBA drawings collection, which was further perfected by Jill Lever in her Catalogue Manual.The system has been in use since the 1960s.[2]

She was instrumental in organising The Burlington Collection, a gift of over 500 architectural prints and drawings including works by Palladio, Inigo Jones and Lord Burlington himself.[3] Out of this work, she curated a travelling exhibition with John Harris, curator of drawings at RIBA: the 1961 exhibition included fifty-four architectural drawings under the title “Architectural Drawings from the Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects.”[2][4]

Publications

A catalogue of the drawings by Inigo Jones 1573–1652, John Webb 1611–1672 and Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington 1694–1753 in the Burlington-Devonshire Collection, by Prunella Fraser and John Harris. Part 1 of Burlington-Devonshire collection, Royal Institute of British Architects, Sir Banister Fletcher Library Drawing Collection.[5]

Fraser contributed to the 1963 Survey of London: Volumes 31 and 32, St James Westminster, Part 2 published by London County Council.[6]

Professional recognition

Prunella Fraser was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in November 1990.[1]

She checked inscriptions on drawings at the Royal Institute of British Architects in preparation for a public lecture on William Talman, given by Margaret Whinney at the Courtauld Institute of Art in November 1954.[7]

In 1956 she introduced a discussion on British 18th-century drawings in the possession of the RIBA Library.[8]

A collection of Fraser's architectural photographs are held at the Courtauld Institute of Art's Conway Library, which is currently undergoing a digitisation process.[9]

Personal life

Prunella Fraser, née Hodgson, was the only daughter of C. G. Hodgson, of St Albans.[10]

She married the architect, Simon Barron Fraser,[11] at Chelsea Old Church on 23 May 1959.[12]

She lived in Bristol in later life.[13] She died on 25 July 2016.[14]

References
  1. "Salon: Issue 370". us6.campaign-archive.com. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
  2. Richardson, Margaret (1983). "Architectural Drawings: Problems of Status and Value". Oxford Art Journal. 5 (2): 13–21. doi:10.1093/oxartj/5.2.13. ISSN 0142-6540. JSTOR 1360231.
  3. McQuaid, Matilda (2002). Envisioning Architecture: Drawings from the Museum of Modern Art. The Museum of Modern Art. pp. 14 note 12. ISBN 978-0-87070-011-8.
  4. Kauffman, Jordan (1 June 2018). Drawing on Architecture: The Object of Lines, 1970–1990. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-03737-2.
  5. Fraser, Prunella; Harris, John (1960). A catalogue of the drawings by Inigo Jones 1573–1652, John Webb 1611–1672 and Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington 1694–1753 in the Burlington-Devonshire Collection. Royal Institute of British Architects.
  6. "Acknowledgements | British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
  7. Whinney, M. D. (1955). "William Talman". Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes. 18 (1/2): 123–139. doi:10.2307/750291. ISSN 0075-4390. JSTOR 750291.
  8. Architects, Royal Institute of British (1956). Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects. The Institute.
  9. "Who made the Conway Library?". Digital Media. 30 June 2020. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
  10. "Solomon Eagle". Notes and Queries. 18 April 1925. doi:10.1093/notesj/cxlviii.apr18.279-a. ISSN 1471-6941.
  11. "MELVILLE GARAGE MANAGEMENT LIMITED – Officers (free information from Companies House)". beta.companieshouse.gov.uk. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
  12. "College notes" (PDF). joh.cam.ac.uk.
  13. "Bristol Cathedral News & Notes" (PDF). 10 July 2016.
  14. "Salon: Issue 370". us6.campaign-archive.com. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
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