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Julia Powys commonplace book
- Title
- Julia Powys commonplace book, ca. 1819-1820.
- Author
- Powys, Julia.
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Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Mixed material | Permit needed | Pforz BND-MSS (Powys, J.) | Schwarzman Building - Pforzheimer Collection Room 319 |
Details
- Found In
- Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle: Manuscripts, 1772-1925
- Description
- 1 volume (139 total leaves, many blank) : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Half green morocco album of manuscript verse, some apparently original, most copied from contemporary sources (including Amelia Opie and Lord Byron), in a few different hands; including an anonymous poem, "To a Young Lady on Her Expressing a Wish that Lord Byron Would Write Some Lines on the Much Lamented Princess Charlotte." Also included are six watercolors (a spinster at the piano; roses; "King Charles' window, Carisbrooke"; flowers; a cartoon with manuscript text, signed "CLP"; a sleeping dog); four ink drawings (a series of a lady and gentleman dancing; a bird, laid in; "Map of Matrimony," signed "CLP"; a man in study); one inserted scrap of manuscript music ("Russian Dances") and one engraved map of France. On the front cover is a green morocco label lettered in gilt: "ALBUM / JULIA POWYS / 1819."
- Genre/Form
- Commonplace books.
- Watercolors (paintings)
- Drawings (visual works)
- Cartoons (humorous images)
- Access (note)
- Restricted access;
- Biography (note)
- Julia Powys and "CLP" could not be identified.
- Call Number
- Pforz BND-MSS (Powys, J.)
- OCLC
- 857860807
- Author
- Powys, Julia.
- Title
- Julia Powys commonplace book, ca. 1819-1820.
- Biography
- Julia Powys and "CLP" could not be identified.
- Local Note
- Pforzheimer Manuscript (B'ANA 0461); shelved with bound manuscript volumes.
- Access
- Restricted access; Pforzheimer Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
- Connect to:
- Found In:
- Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle: Manuscripts, 1772-1925
- Research Call Number
- Pforz BND-MSS (Powys, J.)