Harriet Pengelley was a very talented artist and she filled her sketchbooks with a wide variety of artwork. She worked in pencil, watercolour, pasted images, pen, etc. She also included dried flowers and plants in her sketchbooks. Below is a sampling of different pages in her collection.

"Une prise à Chartre"
Pencil Sketch View in Sketchbook #1 (70-001/1)

 

"Woman''s Tear" a poem written into Sketchbook #1 (70-001/1)

Dance and other Positions drawn by Harriet in Sketchbook #1
(The stick figures were likely used to study the human form) (70-001/1)

The images above are found in Sketchbook #1 which is inscribed with "Harriet Brock, Ma chére amie, Guernesey, February 14th, 1829"