print; book of prints

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Object Type: print; book of prints
Museum number: 1863,0214.1357-1403
Title: Object: Passages from Modern English Poets
Description: "Passages from Modern English Poets. Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club. Forty-Seven etchings." (London, Day & Son) 1862; containing 47 etchings on various poetic and imaginative subjects, including prints by James McNeill Whistler and J. E. Millais, bound with "Illustrative Poems" by various contemporary poets, letterpress titlepage, preface, and list of contents. Original purple binding with gold-tooled title and club motto ("Labor ipse voluptas"), gilt-edge pages. Etchings, printed on chine collé
Producer name: Print made by: The Junior Etching Club; Published by: Day & Co; Print made by: Henry Moore; Print made by: Matthew James Lawless; Print made by: Sir John Tenniel; Print made by: Frank Powell; Print made by: William Coutts Keppel, 7th Earl of Albemarle (as Viscount Bury); Print made by: James McNeill Whistler; Print made by: Gerald Fitzgerald; Print made by: Joseph Clark; Print made by: John Everett Millais; Print made by: John Wright Oakes; Print made by: John Richard Clayton; Print made by: Henry Stacy Marks; Print made by: William Gale; Print made by: Arthur James Lewis; Print made by: John Sleigh; Print made by: Charles Keene; Print made by: Walter Severn; Print made by: Frederick Smallfield; Print made by: Charles Rossiter
Production date: 1862
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique: etching; letterpress
Dimensions: Height: 370 millimetres (sheet size of each page); Width: 275 millimetres
Curator's comments: The two etchings by Whistler are catalogued separately (see 1863,0214.1363 and 1863,0214.1402). Nineteenth-century glue binding has deteriorated, leaving the sheets loose (except Whistler's River Scene, 1863,0214.1402, which remains bound at the end of the volume). For a later edition of "Passages from Modern English Poets", see 1992,0406.249 (located at De Beaumont J20).
Location: Not on display
Subjects: poetry; landscape; courtship/love; war; animal; seasons; fisherman/fishing; bible; tree/bush; plague
Associated names: Associated with: Samuel Taylor Coleridge ("War and Glory"); Associated with: Alfred, Lord Tennyson ("The Brook"); Associated with: Adelaide Anne Procter ("A Woman's Question"); Associated with: Robert Southey ("The Evening Rainbow"; "The Oak of the Forest"); Associated with: George Crabbe ("Rustic Wonder"); Associated with: William Wordsworth ("Twilight"; "A Spring Morning" etc.); Associated with: Letitia Elizabeth Landon ("Scene of the Plague"); Associated with: John Clare ("Signs of Spring"); Associated with: Charles Lamb
Associated titles
Acquisition date: 1863
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1863,0214.1357-1403

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