Drawings, 1828-1863.

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Drawings, 1828-1863.

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166 pen, pencil, charcoal and watercolor drawings and original poetry by various athors including Robert Curzon, Walter Sneyd, Lady Annabella King (Anne Blunt), Viscount Eastnor (later Baron Sommers), and William Makepeace Thackeray among others. The drawings and cartoons depict book collectors Walter Sneyd and Robert Curzon, and a wide variety of other people and topics.

166 items ; 30 cm. or smaller.

Houghton Library

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Somers, John Somers Cocks, Earl, 1760-1841

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Member of the House of Commons, 1782-1806. Name sometimes seen as "Cocks, John Somers, First Earl Somers." From the description of Letter, 1785. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 39330798 ...

Curzon, Robert, 1810-1873

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English archaeologist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [London], to Lady Rawlinson, [no year] Jun. 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270584733 Educated at Charterhouse and Christ Church College, Oxford, Robert Curzon traveled widely in Egypt and Palestine in search of manuscripts during 1834 and visited Mount Athos in 1837. He was later attache ́at the British Embassy in Constantinople. His Visits to the monasteries of the Levant appeared in 1849. Curzon w...

Blunt, Anne, Lady, 1837-1917

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Anne Isabella Noel Blunt [née King], suo jure Baroness Wentworth, traveller and breeder of Arab horses. She was the only daughter of of William King, first earl of Lovelace, and his wife, Ada King, the only child of the poet Lord Byron and his wife, Anne Isabella Milbanke. From the guide to the Lady Anne Blunt manuscript material : 2 items, 1864?, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) Anne Isabella Noel Blunt [née King], su...

Sneyd, Walter, 1809-1888

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Sneyd was an English amateur caricaturist and minister. From the description of Walter Sneyd collection of early modern documents, ca. 1363-1800 (inclusive), ca. 1600-1800 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 83948978 From the guide to the Walter Sneyd collection of early modern documents, ca.1363-1800 (inclusive), ca. 1600-1800 (bulk)., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Walter Sneyd's Portraits of the Spruggins family (pub...

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...