Notebook [manuscript]. [188-]

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Notebook [manuscript]. [188-]

Small album of pen and ink drawings, with text, illustrating Robert Browning's poem The pied piper of Hamelin. It was produced in Sydney around 1884, and is possibly a preliminary sketch for what Coveny might have hoped would be a published work.

2 cm. (1 v.)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7075390

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Coveny, Christopher, 1846-1941.

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Illustrator and painter. Christopher Coveny was born in Sydney in 1846. He was mainly educated in England between 1858 and 1868; first at Oscot, a Catholic College near Birmingham and later in London where he trained for the Bar. He returned to Sydney in 1869 after his mother's death. Coveny's only known published work is Twenty scenes from the works of Dickens (Sydney: T.H. Fielding, 1883). In 1884 he exhibited numerous works on literary themes at the Fifth Annual Exhibition of the Art Society ...

Browning, Robert, 1812-1889

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Robert Browning was a British poet. Born on May 7, 1812, Browning wrote his first major work,"Pauline: a fragment of a confession" at the age of twenty. He married Elizabeth Barrett in 1826 and with her encouragement went on to become one of the major Victorian poets. From the description of Robert Browning collection of papers, [1835?]-1933 bulk ([1835?]-1889). (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122615581 Browning was an English poet. From the descri...