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Hablot Knight Browne, called Phiz
1815-1882
Cholera Mortality Tables
Binding: 7 7/8 x 7 1/4 inches (200 x 184 mm)
Black and red chalk on paper.
1986.1771
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
With an illustrated title-page executed by the artist in black chalk on the verso of the front flyleaf of the volume, reading: Cholera Mortality Tables. A Delightful New Work in 3 vols from the General circulating library; illustrated with a drawing of a skeleton wearing spectacles seated at a table reading a book by candlelight; signed "Phiz" at lower left.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed "H.K.B." in graphite on front flyleaf; inscription of former owner in ink on front flyleaf, "Edg. Browne : Riga 1830" (probably H.K. Browne's brother Edgar, who died at Riga on Jan. 5, 1833).
Summary
Sketchbook consisting of ca. 60 drawings executed by Browne on a copy of: Beobachtungen und Erfahrungen über die epidemische Cholera / Ludwig Dyrsen. Riga : Frantzen, 1831; including numerous macabre sketches of skeletons and "memento mori" in keeping with the contents of the printed text, decorating the 10 preliminary pages and 83 folding mortality tables comprising Dyrsen's book, along with examples of Browne's usual idealized studies of women, children, dogs, and horses.
Associated names
Browne, Edgar, -1833, former owner. NNPM
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Dyrsen, Ludwig, 1797-1835. Beobachtungen und Erfahrungen über die epidemische Cholera.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Dyrsen, Ludwig, 1797-1835. Beobachtungen und Erfahrungen über die epidemische Cholera.
Bibliography
The illustrator and the book in England from 1790 to 1914 / Gordon N. Ray. New York ; London : Oxford Univ. Pr., 1976, p. 80.
Classification
Century Drawings
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