[Scrapbook of prints] [graphic]. [Vol. 1 p 103]

[Scrapbook of prints] [graphic]. [Vol. 1 p 103]

Animals.

Dwellings.

Estates.

Flowers.

Landscapes (Representations)

Literature.

Religion.

Transportation.

East (U.S.) -- Pictorial works.

Great Britain -- Pictorial works.

Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Pictorial works.

Scrapbook containing predominantly clipped book and periodical illustrations, including a number of vignettes engraved by W. E. Tucker after the work of Thomas Birch, showing European and American landscapes and landmarks, animal portraiture, and genre and Biblical scenes. Landscape and landmark views mainly depict the Eastern United States and Great Britain. Titles include Passaic Falls; Bandit’s Home; The Woodlands, near Philadelphia-Seat of J. Lisle Esq.; Philadelphia from the Elm Tree, Kensington; The Prison at Venice; Abbey Gate of St. Edmundsbury, Suffolk; The Little Irish Girl; The City of Pompeii; The Deluge; The Three Maries at the Tomb of Christ; The Residence of Samuel Breck Esq. on the Schuylkill; Barlborough Hall, Derbyshire; Church Street, St Paul’s Church & the Cemetery Gate of St. Augustine’s Monastery, Canterbury; The Happy Family; and Plate XV from a 1782 edition of Don Quixote. Several of the views contain persons on foot, images of estates or rural life, farm animals, and modes of transportation on land or sea. Animal portraitures depict birds, sheep, goats, cows, and a wolf. Scrapbook also contains early European landscape lithographs designed by J. Rothmuller and G. Englemann; a lithograph signed with the monogram JPL; illustrated title pages from Oliver Goldsmith’s "The Traveler" and William Shenstone’s "The School Mistress"; a portrait of Elizabeth Fry; cutouts depicting a tiger and a Moses-like figure; watercolor and gouache drawings of flowers, a butterfly and a ruins; a pressed feather; and three newspaper clippings referring to poets M. LaMartine, Lady Flora Hastings, and Felicia Hemans.

Smith, Mary Rebecca Darby.

Library Company of Philadelphia

ca. 1782-ca. 1835.

1 volume (101 prints): engravings, lithographs, aquatints, watercolors, gouaches; volume 27 x 22 cm. (10.75 x 8.5 in.)

4-Alcove 2 [Is 6 1536.Q, vol. 1]