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
Epistole heroiche del Bruni and Epistole heroiche del Brvni
Description:
Added engraved title-pages have title: Epistole heroiche del Bruni., BEIN 1994 455: Bound as one volume., Continuously paged and signed., Half-title only., Imaginary letters of historical and mythical characters., and Imprint from colophon.
A man, back to the viewer, is seen carrying a caduceus in his left hand. In the center of each border of the square that frames is a different image. At the top of the square is lion framed in a coat of arms; at the bottom is an open book with the title text upon the pages. On both the left and right sides are closed books with long stemmed flowers behind each. The book title on the left reads Il Purga Torio, and the title on the right reads Il Para Diso.
At the center of the bookplate, seven distinguished individuals are featured, with a laurel wreath surrounding the portrait. A caduceus and a quill pen intersect with each other in the background. Beneath the image is an open book; above is the motto Vita humana est sacra.
Subject (Name):
Zakon, Samuel J.
Subject (Topic):
Books, Pens, Physicians, Portraits, Snakes, and Sword