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The "Birket Foster" portfolio of gems.

Accession number
PML 128056.1-16
Creator
Foster, Myles Birket, 1825-1899.
Published
London : Raphael Tuck, [1860-1900?]
Credit line
Purchase, 1998.
Notes
A portfolio of images depicting children in pastoral scenes. Comprising 8 master colored illustrations accompanied by blanks (i.e. the same ill. in outline only) for painting practice.
Approximate date of publication assumed from active dates of the publisher.
The pictures are titled: Birdsnesting; Cat's cradle; Cherry gatherers; Feeding ducks; The hay field; Minding baby; Seaweed gatherers; and Studies.
Two of the blank images in the library's copy have been partially colored.
Description
16 leaves of plates : all ill. ; 16 x 21 cm
Binding
Loose cards held in publisher's portfolio of brown cloth over boards, stamped in gold and in blind, with slits for ties (missing) on front flap; interior lined with dark blue-green paper.
Classification
Department