Album of drawings and watercolors, [1850].

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Album of drawings and watercolors, [1850].

Album, compiled by Fitzgerald, of drawings and watercolors by W.M. Thackeray (2 drawings) and others. Includes drawings of Suffolk estuary and inland scenery, buildings, and people. Some entries in verse (one in the hand of Edward or Elizabeth Cowell). Some dried flowers tied in, and a few engravings with some signed autograph notes by Fitzgerald.

1 v. (57 leaves) ; 27 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7777052

Princeton University Library

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Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863

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Amy Crowe (1831-1865) was a family friend who lived with Thackeray as his adopted daughter and later married Thackerays̓ cousin Edward Talbot Thackeray. From the description of [Letter] to Amy Crowe, 27 September [1854], 36 Onslow Sqr. Brompton. [1854] (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign). WorldCat record id: 35091085 Thackeray was an English novelist and satirist. J. Pearson and Co. and George William Childs were booksellers in London. Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchi...

Fitzgerald, Edward, 1809-1883

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