[Collection of ephemera from an album] [art original].
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Lewis Walpole Library > [Collection of ephemera from an album] [art original].
Description
- Title
- [Collection of ephemera from an album] [art original].
- Alternative Title
- Britannia
- Creator
- Hughes, J., active 1872, artist
- Contributor
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, artist.
- Published / Created
- [30 March 1872]
- Publication Place
- Wales
- Abstract
-
A collection of original art removed from an album: silhouettes, pressed flowers, a valentine, and drawing. The silhouettes include one of a woman in an academic gown and cap mounted on Art-Union of London ticket for entrance to an event at Theatre Royal, Lyceum on 25 April 1854; two views of the same man(?) identified as "James Evans" (on verso: Professor Rees) one with highlighting in gold. The pressed flowers are a small sheet with leaves or petals of a pink hue. The valentine is small drawing of bright flowers with a motto "Toujours unies par l'amitiƩ" with a gold border. Also included is an amateur watercolor of a "Peasant boy" in a smock, standing on a grassy mound
- Description
-
Title supplied by cataloger.
Artist and creation place and date from another item with the collection, which is cataloged separately, a comic map: England / Carnarvon College. March 30th 1872. J. Hughes. - Provenance
- Sold at Forum Auctions, 6 May 2021, lot 60, to Jarndyce for The Lewis Walpole Library.
- Extent
- 1 drawing : sheet 18.6 x 16 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- LWL Mss Vol. 269
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Pressed flora
Silhouettes
Amateur works
Reproductions
Ink drawings - Material
- pen and brown ink with colored pencil ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Geographic)
- Wales.
- Subject (Topic)
-
Peasants
Teachers - Subjects
-
Peasants > Wales
Teachers > Wales
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Citation
- J. Hughes, Collection of Ephemera from an Album. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 16163893
- Object ID (OID)
- 33104076