- Museum number
- 1992,0406.249
- Description
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Passages from Modern English Poets. Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club. Forty-Seven Etchings. London: William Tegg, [1876]. 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 McNeill 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 11 ‘The Lovers’ is by Lord Gerald Fitzgerald. Etching number 24: ‘The Pedlar’ is by Viscount Bury. Robin de Beaumont’s notes regarding price and dating of this copy are on front endpaper verso. Part of these notes reads: ‘Originally published in 1862 by Day and Son at 3 gns [i.e. guineas]. This book was a complete failure and was [?] in Tegg, who reprinted the etchings transferred to stone, as lithographs. However, the quality varies enormously. In this copy they are fine as the originals, and with plate marks. Another copy has the plate marks but was MUCH coarser with loss of images and [?]. Paul [Goldman] and I think that some of [these?] are the original etchings. No - on closer inspection ALL (except for redrawn no. 43) of them. There are poorer , lithographic copies [in other versions]’. The bookplate of Robin de Beaumont is on the upper pastedown.
Binding: Gilt edges. Bevelled boards. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Blue sand-grain cloth. Both covers are blocked identically with fillets on the outer and inner borders (with small floral devices on each corner), in blind on the lower cover and in black on the upper cover. 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, a single gold fillet is blocked across the spine, together with small repeating floral decoration blocked in gold. 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:”/ Tegg. London/” is blocked in gold.
- Production date
- 1876
- Dimensions
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Height: 275 millimetres
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Thickness: 32 millimetres
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Width: 224 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- On John Richard Clayton, see Peter Larkworthy, 'Clayton and Bell, stained glass artists and decorators' (London, Ecclesiological Society, 1984); on Clarence Whaite, see Peter Lord, 'Clarence Whaite and the Welsh Art World' (National Library of Wales, 1998) (via Martin Hopkinson, February 2019).
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Passages from Modern English Poets. Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club.
- Acquisition date
- 1992
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1992,0406.249
