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Anne Margaret Polhill sketchbook
- Title
- Anne Margaret Polhill sketchbook, 1828-1859
- Author
- Polhill, Anne Margaret, 1801-1882.
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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 (Polhill, A. M.) | Schwarzman Building - Pforzheimer Collection Room 319 |
Details
- Description
- 1 volume (87 total leaves, many blank) + 3 loose inserts : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- Fourty-four total drawings in a red morocco-backed sketchbook with red paper boards (watermark = "HORNE / 1818"). Most drawings in ink over pencil, eight in ink wash, two in watercolor. Scenes feature mostly Parisian characters and settings, many with humorous captions.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Sketchbooks.
- Ink drawings.
- Wash drawings.
- Watercolors.
- Cartoons (Commentary)
- Access (note)
- Restricted access;
- Biography (note)
- Anne Margaret Graham was born in 1801, the youngest daughter of Elizabeth Susanna Davenport Graham, the children's book writer, and her husband, Thomas Graham a lawyer, of Edmond Castle in the village of Hayton, Carlisle, Cumbria in England. In 1823 she married Edward Polhill (1789-1859), with whom she had at least five children. For some years the Polhills lived in France. Anne Margaret Polhill died in Brighton on November 6, 1882.
- Contents
- Eastbourne, Sept. 1828. -- "No music like a ring of bells." -- [Tea time]. -- The Good Chaperon. -- The Bad Chaperon. -- "Well Betty, & where do you live now?" -- Autrefois/Aujourdhui. -- The Boa Constrictor, Jan.y 1829. -- Soyez tranquille . . . -- Paris, Nov. 1829. -- Theatre Italien. -- Grade promenade aux Tuilleries. -- Hunting for apartments, Paris, Nov. 1829. -- Promenade in the Place du Carousel, Jan 1830. -- [Rough sketch of people in a church]. -- French Tournure. -- Le mariage de Convenance. -- L'hiver, 19 Janvier 1830. -- La vielle Comtesse & son Chasseur. -- Les poumons forts. Jan. 1830. -- "Here are your wages, & we are much obliged to you for not having murdered us." -- "On ne reçoit pas les jeunes hommes, Madame, apres trois ans." -- The Infant School, or The March of Intellect. -- Le Bal. -- Adolphe Tessier. -- Le maitre d'armes. -- French opera. -- Promenade de Longchamps. -- A Swiss Pension. -- Char a banc, Lausanne. -- Rome, 1831. -- Les belles Journées de Juillet, 1830. -- Ball at the Hotel de Ville, 1830. -- An inconsolable mother. -- "Croyez vouz . . ." -- [People on a staircase]. -- "My admiration knows no bounds." -- Valse a deux temps, 1845. -- Railway trousers, narrow & wide gauge. -- Eastbourne 9 am/ 3 pm, 1859. -- "Small boy . . ."-- Kensington Museum, public day. -- [Grieving woman, dead man, and onlookers]. -- [Rough sketch of girl]. -- [Three inserted sheets with rough sketches and notes].
- Call Number
- Pforz BND-MSS (Polhill, A. M.)
- OCLC
- 987583454
- Author
- Polhill, Anne Margaret, 1801-1882.
- Title
- Anne Margaret Polhill sketchbook, 1828-1859
- Access
- Restricted access; Pforzheimer Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
- Biography
- Anne Margaret Graham was born in 1801, the youngest daughter of Elizabeth Susanna Davenport Graham, the children's book writer, and her husband, Thomas Graham a lawyer, of Edmond Castle in the village of Hayton, Carlisle, Cumbria in England. In 1823 she married Edward Polhill (1789-1859), with whom she had at least five children. For some years the Polhills lived in France. Anne Margaret Polhill died in Brighton on November 6, 1882.
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- Research Call Number
- Pforz BND-MSS (Polhill, A. M.)