Sharpe, S, Album, 1837
- Title(s):
- Album.
- Published/Created:
- Great Britain, 1837.
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume (approximately 200 leaves, with blanks) ; 26 cm
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsPN6245.S53 A43 1837Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund[Request]
- Copyright Status:
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/11192858
- Classification:
- Archives & Manuscripts
- Notes:
- Bound in gilt-tooled morocco. The front pastedown bears the gilt-stamped leather owner's label of "S. Sharpe."
Album of prints, drawings, and verse, probably compiled by "S. Sharpe," circa 1837. The album is primarily comprised of early 19th-century engravings, some perhaps excerpted from contemporary books (such as literary annuals). They include genre prints, historical prints; marine prints; portrait prints; and women of the stage, including "Jenny Lind, Swedish Nightingale" and "Miss Fanny Kemble as Euphrasia." A smaller number of lithographs (of the same subjects) are also present. A small percentage of each are hand-colored. There is one medal engraving. The most unusual print is a hand-colored lithograph of what appears to be a woman playing a man in woman's costume, possibly a portrait of Sarah Louisa Fairbrother. Also present are a handful of watercolor drawings, including compositions of birds, shells and algae, and botanical illustrations. There are about five poems interspersed, copied in manuscript, in pen and black ink. - Subject Terms:
- Fairbrother, Louise.
- Form/Genre:
- Albums (books)
Engravings.
Lithographs.
Watercolors. - Export:
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