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British School

18th century

Album of Edward Cheney

Drawings in watercolor, wash, and graphite, on paper.

Binding: 14 1/4 x 9 3/4 inches (362 x 248 mm)

Gift of the Fellows.

1967.7

Notes:

Forty-six drawings by various artists, mostly English artists of the eighteenth and nineteenth century.
Contains bookplates of Edward Cheney and Michael Tomkinson. Drawings attributed to Lady Marion Alford, Thomas Hartley Cromek, Robert Hartley Cromek?, Miss De Wint, Thomas Edward Lear, Thomas Rowlandson, George Scharf, John Varley, John William Wright.

Provenance:

Assembled by Edward Cheney; Michael Tomkinson; G. Edward Harris, Kent.

Associated names:

Anonymous, British School, 19th cent.
Cheney, Edward, 1803-1884, former owner.
Tomkinson, Michael, former owner.
Harris, G. Edward, former owner.
Alford, Marion, Lady.
Cromek, Thomas Hartley, 1809-1873.
Cromek, R. H. (Robert Hartley), 1770-1812.
De Wint, Miss.
Lear, Edward, 1812-1888.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.
Scharf, George.
Varley, John, 1778-1842.
Wright, John William, 1802-1848.
Rospigliosi, binder.

Bibliography:

Pierpont Morgan Library. Review of Acquisitions, 1949-1968. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969, p. 143.
Adams, Frederick B., Jr., ed. Fifteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1967 & 1968. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969, p. 129.

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