A collection of prints and one drawing (tentatively attributed to Samuel Collings), mostly portraits of Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, mounted in Walpole's copy of James Boswell's The journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson (London : Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, 1785).
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Also bound in are three prints described in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum; these are cataloged separately., and Original boards with new back but old hand-lettered label, uncut. With Horace Walpole's bookplate (BP2 later state) on half-title page. Large Strawberry Hill fleuron. Press-mark R.10, but apparently moved from the Round Tower to the Library in the Offices. Not in Walpole's Manuscript Catalogue of 1763. Bookplate of the Earl of Orford (1813-94), imitated from Horace Walpole's, and bookplate of John A. Spoor. Also with bookplate "AHA".
Subject (Name):
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784,, Boswell, James, 1740-1795,, Boufflers, Marie Charlotte Hippolyte, countess of, 1725-1800,, Macpherson, James, 1736-1796,, and Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
The diaries describe an 1849 expedition by way of St. Joseph, Fort Kearney, Fort Laramie, South Pass, Sublette's Cut-off, Bear River, Cantonment Loring, Raft River, the Humboldt, Lassen's Route to Deer Creek, and Bruff's camp. They contain maps and sketches from the journey and notes on life in California. The journals were written from the diaries. The notebooks contain more sketches from the trip and of equipment. There are memoranda of supplies and equipment, routes, and remedies.
Alternative Title:
Emmigration, across the continent, in 1849, to
Subject (Geographic):
California --Description and travel, West (U.S.) --Description and travel, West (U.S.) --Maps, and West (U.S.) --Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Bruff, Joseph Goldsborough, 1804-1889 and Washington City and California Mining Association
Subject (Topic):
Gold mines and mining --California --History --19th century --Personal narratives, Gold mines and mining --North America --History --19th century, Gold mines and mining --Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.), Gold mines and mining --United States --History, and Gold mines and mining --West (U.S.) --History --19th century
Perry, Matthew Calbraith, 1794-1858, collector Young, Edward C., 1806-1856
Published / Created:
1831-1832
Call Number:
GEN MSS VOL 541
Image Count:
130
Abstract:
A quarto album with portraits and landscapes mounted on facing pages, bound in full morocco, with gold tooling; "Costumes of the Mediterranean" is stamped in gold on the front cover, and "Sarah Perry" is stamped on the back cover. The portrait drawings were not signed by the artist, but are attributed to him by comparison with a second album, held at the G. W. Blunt White Library, Mystic Seaport, featuring costumes from ports visited by the Concord in the second year of its Mediterranean cruise (1832); that set of portraits was signed by Young, and the album was owned by Jane Perry Hone, the younger sister of Sarah Perry Rogers. The album holds three distinct sets of images that were acquired by Commodore Matthew C. Perry during his 1830-1832 service in the Mediterranean Squadron, and presented to his eldest daughter Sarah. (For a more complete description of the three sets of images, please see the summary in the full Orbis record.)
Subject (Geographic):
Naples (Italy) --Pictorial works, Naples, Bay of (Italy) --Pictorial works, Pompeii (Extinct city) --Pictorial works, and Vesuvius (Italy) --Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Concord (Sloop of war), Perry, Matthew Calbraith, 1794-1858, Rodgers, Sarah Perry, b. 1818, United States. Navy. Mediterranean Squadron, and Young, Edward C., 1806-1856