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print; book; book-illustration

Object Type: print; book; book-illustration
Museum number: 1992,0406.248
Description: Passages from Modern English Poets. Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club. Forty-Seven Etchings. London: Day & Son, Limited, Lithographers & Publishers, 6, Gate Street, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, [1862]. 45p. 45 plates. Each page is printed on both sides, but is numbered on the recto only. In the ‘List of Etching & Illustrative Poems’, the names of the artists/ etchers are given as [full names given where possible]: Henry Moore, [probably] Matthew James Lawless, John Tenniel, Viscount Bury [i.e. William Coutts Keppel, 7th Earl of Albemarle], James Whistler, Lord Gerald Fitzgerald, F. Powell [i.e. possibly Frank Powell], John Wright Oakes, John Richard Clayton, Henry Stacy Marks, William Gale, Arthur James Lewis, John Sleigh, Charles Keene, Walter Severn, Henry Clarence Whaite, Charles Rossiter, Frederick Smallfield, Fredrick Bacon Barwell, Joseph Clark. Etching number 1: ‘Dead Fallow Buck; The Wild Deer’ is by Henry Moore. Etching number 45: ‘A River Scene’ is by James Whistler. Robin de Beaumont’s notes regarding price and dating of this copy are on front endpaper verso. The bookplate of Robin de Beaumont is on the upper pastedown. Binding: Gilt edges. Bevelled boards. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Pruple sand-grain cloth. The same panel design is blocked in blind on both covers. On the upper cover, the central vignette shows the monogram of the Junior Etching Club ‘IEC’, within a medallion blocked in gold, with small decoration on its perimeter blocked in relief. The motto of the Club: “Labor ipse Voluptas” is blocked in relief underneath the Club’s monogram. The title words: “/ Passages from/ Modern English Poets [blocked in a semi-circle]/ Illustrated by the [blocked in a semi-circle]/ Junior Etching Club./” are blocked in gold above and below the central medallion. The spine is blocked in gold. At the head and at the tail, within gold fillets blocked across the spine, small decoration is picked out in relief. Near the head and on the centre of the spine, the words: “/ Passages/ from/ English/ Poems/ Illustrated by the/ Junior/ Etching Club/” are blocked in gold; near the tail the imprint:”/ London/ Day & Son/ Limited/” is blocked in gold.
Producer name: Print made by: Henry Moore; Print made by: Matthew James Lawless; Print made by: Sir John Tenniel; Print made by: William Coutts Keppel, 7th Earl of Albemarle; Print made by: James McNeill Whistler; Print made by: Gerald Fitzgerald; Print made by: Frank Powell; 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: Henry Clarence Whaite; Print made by: Charles Rossiter; Print made by: Frederick Smallfield; Print made by: Fredrick Bacon Barwell; Print made by: Joseph Clark; Published by: Day & Co (Day and Son)
School/style: British; American
Production date: [1862]
Production place: Published in: London (England)
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Dimensions: Height: 245 millimetres; Thickness: 25 millimetres; Width: 180 millimetres
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Location: Not on display
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Acquisition date: 1992
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1992,0406.248