print;
diary;
title-page
- Museum number
- 1883,0714.453
- Title
- Series: Le souvenir or pocket tablet for MDCCCXLI.
- Description
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Titlepage to a pocket diary for 1841, with title engraved as if on a cloth suspended over sheafs of corn and oak branches; in the upper part of the design, a snake wrapped around a tripod, its tongue touching flames issuing from a chalice, set between two vases containing flowers and fruits;
Verso: diary page for the 1st to the 15th of January, headed by a vignette titled 'The death of William Rufus.' and engraved with the phases of the moon. 1840
Etching
- Production date
- 1840
- Dimensions
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Height: 116 millimetres (approx. page size)
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Width: 72 millimetres (approx. page size)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The gilt-edged diary pages are stitched together without a cover, and kept at pressmark 165A.a.3 with the diaries for 1837, 1838 and 1842. The pages of the diary proper are preceded by an etched frontispiece of the cloisters at Gloucester cathedral (1883,0714.452), and had been followed by an unannotated leaf which has been excised. There follow eighty pages including the contents pages, and lists and details of terms, peers, the House of Commons, public offices, assessed taxes and the 'Stranger's guide to places of general resort'.
For the entire diary, see register numbers 1883,0714.452-465.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1883
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1883,0714.453
