BIB_ID
104285
Accession number
MA 3207.1-18
Creator
Fawkes, Lionel Grimston, 1849-1931.
Display Date
ca. 1874
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund with the special assistance of Mrs. Vincent Astor, Mr. and Mrs. Richardson Dilworth, Mr. Albert H. Gordon, Mr. Morris Hadley, Mrs. Harold M. Landon, Mr. Paul Mellon, Mrs. James H. Ripley, Mr. Benjamin Sonnenberg, Mr. Robert H. Taylor, The Thorne Foundation, Mrs. Alan Valentine and Miss Julia P. Wightman, 1977.
Description
1 volume (18 drawings), bound ; 26.3 cm
Notes
The drawings for "Way We Live Now" were originally attributed to Luke Fildes, [Sir (Samuel) Luke Fildes, 1843-1927] an erroneous attribution that remained from the publication of the novel in 1874 until 1947 when Michael Sadleir, a Trollope scholar and collector, wrote a letter to The Times Literary Supplement (April 5, 1947). In his letter Sadleir confessed that "my attribution of the illustrations to the first edition of "Trollope: A Bibliography (p. 143) was a mistaken one. He concludes the letter by "apologizing not only for my error but to any members of the family of the late Luke Fildes who may feel that the memory of this distinguished artist has been traduced." In 1980, N. John Hall in his book "Trollope and his Illustrators" says that the proper attribution of the illustrations "should have been obvious from the very clear initials 'LGF' on the drawings.
With a separate volume (MA 3206) containing the autograph manuscript of "Way We Live Now."
With a separate volume (MA 3206) containing the autograph manuscript of "Way We Live Now."
Provenance
Purchased on the Fellows Fund with the special assistance of Mrs. Vincent Astor, Mr. and Mrs. Richardson Dilworth, Mr. Albert H. Gordon, Mr. Morris Hadley, Mrs. Harold M. Landon, Mr. Paul Mellon, Mrs. James H. Ripley, Mr. Benjamin Sonnenberg, Mr. Robert H. Taylor, The Thorne Foundation, Mrs. Alan Valentine and Miss Julia P. Wightman in 1977.
Summary
Being a collection of 18 pen and ink drawings, many with titles, for Trollope's novel "The Way We Live Now."
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box.
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