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Schonberg's Acrography

 File — Container: box 1, Folder: 44
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Three pages (5 1/2" x 8 1/2") apparently removed from an unidentified publication depicting 7 different vignettes of acrographs by L. Schonberg and signed by him in some of the plates. Acrography is method of relief etching on wood, metal, or stone by means of a coating of compressed chalk, invented by Louis Schonberg in 1841

Dates: Title page dated 1826; Content primarily from 1824-1827
Found in: Watkinson Library - Archival Collections / Ellen Harper Parkes Commonplace Album

Partially Disbound Album, 1826

 File — Container: box 1, Folder: 45
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Album 7 1/2" x 9" bound in 3/4 leather and marbled boards with marbled endpapers. Frond cover detatched. 72 leaves remaining bound in. Paper varies in color (white, cream, tan, and grey)and most leaves were not used.

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Dates: 1826
Found in: Watkinson Library - Archival Collections / Ellen Harper Parkes Commonplace Album

Ellen Harper Parkes Album, 1825

 File — Container: box 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection: An album composed by Ellen Harper Parkes (later Ellen Worsley) in 1826, containing written and illustrated material created largely between 1824 and 1827. Among the material are handwritten transcripts of poems originally written by Sarah Parkes, Anna Letitia Barbauld, and Letitia Elizabeth Landon (signed L.E.L.) as well as drawings and watercolors by an array of acquaintances, most of which are identified by their initials. Some of the illustrations were copied from contemporary printed...
Dates: 1825
Found in: Watkinson Library - Archival Collections / Ellen Harper Parkes Commonplace Album

The Labourer Drops the Scythe

 File — Container: box 1, Folder: 2
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Original illustration - pencil and watercolor on paper - of two workers resting under a tree, apparently on a residential estate. The illustration (4 3/4" x 5", no signature, no date)is mounted on a tan page removed from the Album. Below the illustration is a handwritten quotation, "The Labourer drops the scythe and desists from his work-", likely transcribed by Parkes. The quotation was taken from "Meditations and Contemplations..." by the Rev. James Hervey.

Dates: Title page dated 1826; Content primarily from 1824-1827
Found in: Watkinson Library - Archival Collections / Ellen Harper Parkes Commonplace Album

View of Beddgelert

 File — Container: box 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Watercolor painting (4 3/8" x 2 7/8", no signature, no date) within a hand drawn pen/ink frame on a tan page removed from the Album. Handwritten caption, "View Near Beddgelert" below the frame.

Dates: Title page dated 1826; Content primarily from 1824-1827
Found in: Watkinson Library - Archival Collections / Ellen Harper Parkes Commonplace Album

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