Found 17 collections related to Drawings (visual works)

Details of uniforms and equipment of the British army, 1742-1881, collected by Samuel M. Milne of Leeds, England ca. 1913. Includes specimens of cloth, braid, and other material, mounted, with descriptive notes in manuscript, colored sketches, photographs, drawings, and letters relating to the specimens less

This logbook of the H.M.S. Narcissus, a British ship of war captained by F.M. Almer, was kept from January 1, 1811 through March 11, 1812 by Lieutenant Charles Tindal. During this time, the ship sailed from Falmouth to the Isle of Gomera, Madeira, Portsmouth, Newfoundland, Labrador, back to Plymouth, England, and other locations. Entries include observations, ports visited, ships boarded, and other details. Also mentioned are sheep and slave supplies bound for America. Includes drawings of Gomera, Port Manvers, the Labrador Coast, Croque Harbor, St. Johns, and other locations less

Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn (1783-1851) of Roxbury, Massachusetts was a politician, militia officer, author and horticulturist. Born in Exeter, New Hampshire, he was the son of Henry Dearborn (1751-1829), an American army officer and statesman, and Dorcas Osgood Marble. The Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn writings comprise six scrapbook volumes containing his published writings, speeches, and reports, and Dearborn's collected papers regarding his role in the 1842 Dorr Rebellion in Rhode Island. The volumes were compiled by Dearborn for his family between 1844 and 1849; contents date from 1806 to 1849. Horticulture and American politics and government are the chief topics represented in his writings. A few illustrations, mostly botanical, are found within. less

Commonplace book of Henry Granbery, which he titled "Select Pieces in Prose, Blank Verse and Poetry: From the most eminent writers / And also a few pieces of Poetry written by Gentlemen in Norfolk." He kept this volume in Norfolk, Virginia beginning in January 1826. Inside front cover contains pencil drawing said to indicate the route taken from Norfolk to North Carolina by H.A.T. Granbery and his wife when they eloped less

Lawrence Kearney was a lieutenant commander in the United States Navy in 1817, and continued a naval career through the time of his death in 1868. Kearney earned the rank of commodore in 1867. Lawrence Kearney's sketchbook contains colored drawings of locations along the Atlantic coast, including: Louisburg, Cape Breton Island; New Orleans, Louisiana; Havana, Cuba; and St. John's Harbor, Antigua. Also included are drawings of ships and forts and some specimens of natural history less

The Clarence Day Papers document the literary career, business activity, personal life and family background of the author and illustrator. The papers include personal and professional correspondence; notebooks, manuscripts, typescripts, galley proofs and publication tearsheets; business and financial records; family papers; news clippings and literary reference files; school and college records; drawings, photographs and artifacts. Correspondents include Helen Dore Boylston, Henry Canby, Paul De Kruif, Francis Hackett, Learned Hand, Carl Hovey, Albert G. Keller, Troy Kinney, Sonya Levien, Rose Wilder Lane, Alice Duer Miller, Elsie Clews Parsons, William Lyon Phelps, Harold Ross, Miriam Finn Scott, Upton Sinclair, Signe Toksvig, E. B. White and Katharine White. The Clarence Day Papers are an important resource for the study of American magazine literature during the 1910s-1930s, and provide essential background information regarding Day's most popular and enduring work, Life With Father. less

Lady Anne Hamilton, Scots-born courtier and friend of Queen Caroline of Brunswick. Manuscript volume in ink, in divers hands, compiled by and for Lady Anne Hamilton, and possibly her sister, Lady Susan, Countess of Dunmore. Includes pieces copied from figures in Lady Anne's circle, such as M. G. Lewis and William Robert Spencer; also pieces by Thomas Moore, Richard Payne Knight, Samuel Rogers, Lord Byron, William Cowper, Charles Wolfe, R. B. Sheridan, William Sotheby, and Samuel Johnson. With a few original illustrations, some in vibrant watercolor. Bound in full contemporary leather, spine lettered in gilt with "POETRY" at the head and "A. H." at the foot. less

Marianne Wing was born about 1819 in Braintree, Essex, England, the daughter of William Wing. By 1851 she was living in Chelmsford with her husband, William Abbott, a retired farmer, and their two young children, Joseph William and Clara Maria. Ten years later she was living with her husband in Black Notley. By 1881 she was widowed and living with her unmarried sister, Sarah Wing, in Lambeth. In 1889, at age 70, she married James Raper, a joiner/carpenter, at St Stephen's, Walbrook. She died an inmate at Peckham House Lunatic Asylum on February 17, 1892. Manuscript notebook containing 36 original poems and prose meditations, with 12 original illustrations. A dedication, to the author's brother, is dated January 20, 1836; another piece is dated 1834. Most of the other pieces are undated, but appear to have been written around the 1830's and are signed either "M Wing" or "M W." One poem (leaf 43 recto) is signed "Marianne Wing." The final two poems, dated 1880 and 1881 (each written to one of her grandchildren), are signed "Mrs. Abbott" and "M. Abbott," respectively. An ownership inscription at the front reads: "Mrs. W. Abbott / Original Poems." The illustrations, mostly watercolors of birds and flowers, include pencil drawings of Cowling Castle in Kent, a rose, and a sailboat. In contemporary green calf with gilt border on covers; spine gilt, with two red morocco labels reading "Original" and "Vol. I.". less

E. Beecroft of Lowestoft could not be identified. Botanical sketchbook containing the notes and illustrations of E. Beecroft, identified in a pencil note on the title page as "Mrs. Beecroft." The text opens with a five-page and two-line guide to Linnean taxonomy copied from Priscilla Wakefield's Introduction to Botany, followed by twenty-one lines on the pleasures of nature, apparenty by Beecroft herself. The bulk of the volume is composed of a series of carefully-rendered full-page pencil and watercolor illustrations of plant specimens (28 in all), followed by manuscript identifications and descriptions. A forty-eight page alphabetical list of plants, including Latin and (when possible) English names, is at the back. less

Most album entries are signed by members of the Godson family, including Eliza Godson, Richard Godson, Mrs. Richard Godson, Mary Anne Godson and Margaret Godson. The 1861 census lists Sarah Godson, age 56, living at Court House in Tenbury Wells, along with Margaret and Eliza, all three unmarried. Sarah Godson is still living with Margaret at Court House in the 1871 census, but her age is listed as 69. Other contributors to the album include Ann Say Nixon, Frances Mary Emily Sarragin, Marie Owen, and Eugenia Sabilla. Album formerly owned by Sarah Godson of Tenbury Wells, Worcester, England, filled with manuscript and artwork contributions by her family members and friends. On the first leaf recto is scripted in pencil, "Sarah Godson / February 1829," beneath which is written in pencil in a later hand, "Tenbury=Worcester / Tenbury Wells / E.A.G." The manuscript entries are mostly poems, some original, some copied (Byron's "Youth and Age"; Mary Anne Browne's "Woman's Heart"; Tennyson's "Anacreontics"). Among the artwork contributions are a fanciful painting of a woman composed entirely of flowers; a watercolor of a black woman carrying a basket; a highly-detailed pencil drawing of a crested pheasant; watercolors of a "Country Woman of Meris Wanden" and "A Milkman of Fribourg"; a watercolor of an Arabian man; a number of other watercolors and drawings (many of flowers); and several printed illustrations (engravings, etc.). Laid in is a drawing of a young woman, clearly based on an early photograph. less

Julia Powys and "CLP" could not be identified. Half green morocco album of manuscript verse, some apparently original, most copied from contemporary sources (including Amelia Opie and Lord Byron), in a few different hands; including an anonymous poem, "To a Young Lady on Her Expressing a Wish that Lord Byron Would Write Some Lines on the Much Lamented Princess Charlotte." Also included are six watercolors (a spinster at the piano; roses; "King Charles' window, Carisbrooke"; flowers; a cartoon with manuscript text, signed "CLP"; a sleeping dog); four ink drawings (a series of a lady and gentleman dancing; a bird, laid in; "Map of Matrimony," signed "CLP"; a man in study); one inserted scrap of manuscript music ("Russian Dances") and one engraved map of France. On the front cover is a green morocco label lettered in gilt: "ALBUM / JULIA POWYS / 1819.". less