- Museum number
- 1992,0406.261
- Description
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Pictures of Society. Grave and Gay. From the pencils of celebrated artists and the pens of popular authors. [Device of Sampson Low.] London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, Milton House, Ludgate Hill, 1866. [London:] Dalziel Brothers, engravers & printers, Camden Press. 226p. 91 plates. The frontispiece is captioned: “Victoria’. It is signed: “EMO”, [i.e. Elizabeth M. Osborne]. In the [list of] Contents, the artists are listed as [full names given where possible]: Elizabeth Osborne, Charles Henry Bennett, Louis Huard, Edward Killingworth Johnson, John Dawson Watson, Von Ramberg [i.e. possibly Arthur Georg van Ramberg], Matthew James Lawless, Alfred W. Cooper, George du Maurier, Walter Crane, John Everett Millais, Florence Anne Claxton, Thomas Hood, Frederick Richard Pickersgill, William McConnell, Charles Altamont Doyle, George Thomas i.e. probably George Housman Thomas], T. Morgan, Frederick William Keyl, George Housman Thomas, Mary Ellen Edwards, Louis William Desanges, Thomas Morten, James Godwin, Frederick John Skill, J Bouvier, Sen. [i.e. possibly Joseph Bouvier] , John Callcott Horsley, Ferdinand Heilbuth, Thomas Francis Dicksee, Frederick Walker, H. Thomas, H. Schlessinger [i.e. possibly Henry Guillaume Schlesinger], Edward John Poynter, Edward Henry Corbould, Francis John Wyburd, H. Sanderson, William Paton Burton, Carl Piloty, Adelaide Claxton, Marcus Stone, Samuel Cotes, Charles Green, Charles West Cope, Thomas Bolton Dalziel, A. Pasquier [probably James Abbott Pasquier], Frederick Sandys, Robert Dudley. Robin de Beaumont’s notes regarding price and dating of this copy are on front endpaper verso and on a separate slip of paper. He notes: ‘ BCB [i.e. British Catalogue of Books] Oct 1865 21/-.’He also notes: ‘Here, amid a few designs of first rate importance, there are many that are frankly bad. In this case the pictures have been selected from the files of James Hogg’s magazines, London Society, and the Churchman’s Family Magazine…The book, a small quarto, is almost as much an anthology of literature as of art, but the literature is uniformly feeble…’ The bookplate of Robin de Beaumont is on the upper pastedown.
Binding: Gilt edges. Bevelled boards. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Green sand-grain cloth. Three gold fillets are blocked on the borders of each cover, with hatch gold being blocked between the two inner fillets. Both covers are blocked identically with an ‘all over’ panel and strap design, formed by interlocking fillets at the head the tail and the sides. At the head and at the tail, the title words: “/ Pictures of Society/ Grave & Gay/” are blocked in gold. On the upper cover, the interlocking straps are additionally blocked in pink, blue, red and white. [It seems likely that the colours were blocked after the blocking in gold] The spine is blocked in gold. On the perimeter, gold hatch is blocked between two gold fillets. Panels and diamonds are formed by these fillets and hatch work. Near the head, the title words: “/ Pictures/ of/ Society/ Grave & Gay/” are blocked in gold within one such panel. Above and below these word, diamonds are formed by the fillets. Small leaf and curling stem decoration is blocked above the title, and down the spine to near the tail – all picked out in small relief by the gold hatch work. At the tail, the publisher: “/ Sampson Low & Co./” is blocked in gold within a rectangular formed by the fillets and the hatch.
- Production date
- 1866
- Dimensions
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Height: 258 millimetres
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Thickness: 45 millimetres
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Width: 180 millimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Pictures of Society. Grave and Gay.
- Acquisition date
- 1992
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1992,0406.261
