[Ephemera] American miscellany album, ca. 1840's Folio. Original boards. Approximately 42 leaves of mounted material. Likely assembled by Deborah Passmore Gillingham (of Philadelphia) and represents her reformist, abolitionist, nascently feminist, and partly Quaker milieu. The album holds more than 100 primarily engraved prints including portraits of reformers and poets - primarily American and British, their homes, tombs, etc. Thomas Clarkson, Daniel O'Connell, John Griscom, Alice B. Neal are represented, also American views (many of Philadelphia), and British views, assorted genre prints. The album also holds approximately 20 original drawings - pencil, pen and ink, chalk, and wash - most presumably by Gillingham (one signed). Subjects include portraits of Nichols Wain, Washington Alleston, view of the river side at Earlham [the newly established Quaker college in Richmond, Indiana], the birth place of Isaac Newton, Thomas Moore's cottage, Residence of George Fox Jane Taylor's Tomb, other residences of prominent authors, view of the Philadelphia meeting house at Front and Arch, Swiss views, also several natural history (fish and butterfly studies) color wash drawings. Also with two original wash drawings of landscapes by the English abolitionist Elizabeth Heyrick. The album also holds a holograph verse by Amelia Opie, "to America," dated 1846, and one by Bernard Barton. Also includes approximately 20 seaweed and botanical specimens. Supposed [labeled] reliques, including "Piece of Washington's Coffin," "leaf from the Charter Oak," "Mummy cloth."
[Ephemera] American miscellany album, ca. 1840's Folio. Original boards. Approximately 42 leaves of mounted material. Likely assembled by Deborah Passmore Gillingham (of Philadelphia) and represents her reformist, abolitionist, nascently feminist, and partly Quaker milieu. The album holds more than 100 primarily engraved prints including portraits of reformers and poets - primarily American and British, their homes, tombs, etc. Thomas Clarkson, Daniel O'Connell, John Griscom, Alice B. Neal are represented, also American views (many of Philadelphia), and British views, assorted genre prints. The album also holds approximately 20 original drawings - pencil, pen and ink, chalk, and wash - most presumably by Gillingham (one signed). Subjects include portraits of Nichols Wain, Washington Alleston, view of the river side at Earlham [the newly established Quaker college in Richmond, Indiana], the birth place of Isaac Newton, Thomas Moore's cottage, Residence of George Fox Jane Taylor's Tomb, other residences of prominent authors, view of the Philadelphia meeting house at Front and Arch, Swiss views, also several natural history (fish and butterfly studies) color wash drawings. Also with two original wash drawings of landscapes by the English abolitionist Elizabeth Heyrick. The album also holds a holograph verse by Amelia Opie, "to America," dated 1846, and one by Bernard Barton. Also includes approximately 20 seaweed and botanical specimens. Supposed [labeled] reliques, including "Piece of Washington's Coffin," "leaf from the Charter Oak," "Mummy cloth."
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