Anne Margaret Polhill sketchbook

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{"value"=>"Pforz BND-MSS (Polhill, A. M.)", "type"=>"local_call"}

origination

{"value"=>"Polhill, Anne Margaret, 1801-1882", "type"=>"persname"}

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{"value"=>"Anne Margaret Polhill sketchbook"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"1828-1859", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1828/1859"}

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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"1 volume (87 total leaves, many blank) + 3 loose inserts"}, {"name"=>"physfacet", "value"=>"illustrations"}, {"name"=>"dimensions", "value"=>"23 cm"}], "supress_display"=>true}

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{"value"=>"<p>Fourty-four total drawings in a red morocco-backed sketchbook with red paper boards (watermark = \"HORNE / 1818\"). Most drawings in ink over pencil, eight in ink wash, two in watercolor. Scenes feature mostly Parisian characters and settings, many with humorous captions.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

bioghist

{"value"=>"<p>Anne Margaret Graham was born in 1801, the youngest daughter of Elizabeth Susanna Davenport Graham, the children's book writer, and her husband, Thomas Graham a lawyer, of Edmond Castle in the village of Hayton, Carlisle, Cumbria in England. In 1823 she married Edward Polhill (1789-1859), with whom she had at least five children. For some years the Polhills lived in France. Anne Margaret Polhill died in Brighton on November 6, 1882.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

date_start

1828

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1828

date_end

1859

date_inclusive_start

1828

date_inclusive_end

1859

extent_statement

1 volume (87 total leaves, many blank) + 3 loose inserts : illustrations ; 23 cm

prefercite

{"value"=>"Anne Margaret Polhill sketchbook, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library"}

abstract

{"value"=>"Anne Margaret Graham was born in 1801, the youngest daughter of Elizabeth Susanna Davenport Graham, the children's book writer, and her husband, Thomas Graham a lawyer, of Edmond Castle in the village of Hayton, Carlisle, Cumbria in England. In 1823 she married Edward Polhill (1789-1859), with whom she had at least five children. For some years the Polhills lived in France. Anne Margaret Polhill died in Brighton on November 6, 1882. Fourty-four total drawings in a red morocco-backed sketchbook with red paper boards (watermark = \"HORNE / 1818\"). Most drawings in ink over pencil, eight in ink wash, two in watercolor. Scenes feature mostly Parisian characters and settings, many with humorous captions.", "generated"=>true}

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