print;
diary;
title-page
- Museum number
- 1883,0714.467
- Title
- Series: Le souvenir, or pocket tablet, for MDCCCXLII
- Description
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Titlepage to a pocket diary for 1842, 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 'Stephen taken prisoner at the battle of Lincoln 1140.' and engraved with the phases of the moon. 1841
Etching
- Production date
- 1841
- Dimensions
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Height: 117 millimetres (approx. page size)
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Width: 75 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 1841. The pages of the diary proper are preceded by an etched frontispiece of Rievaulx Abbey (1883,0714.466), and had been followed by four unannotated leaves which have been excised. There follow eighty pages including the contents pages, and lists and details of terms, peers, the House of Commons, public offices, stamp duties, assessed taxes and the 'Stranger's guide to places of general resort'.
For the entire diary, see register numbers 1883,0714.466-479.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
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Associated Event: Battle of Lincoln 2 February 1141
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Associated Event: The Anarchy 1135-1154 (circa)
- Acquisition date
- 1883
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1883,0714.467