Accession number
PML 86069.1-33
Creator
E. K.
Published
1830?
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2011.
Notes
Title from published illustrations.
Original drawings executed for a set of lithographed landscape views featuring alphabetic designs, published in 1830 by Engelmann, Graf, Coindet & Co. and issued both in the form of an illustrated book and a deck of illustrated cards; 19 of the drawings are signed with the artist's initials, "E.K.", indicating that the set may possibly be the work of miniature painter Emma E. Kendrick. Cf. Twyman.
Drawings on individual cards decorated with embossed borders by the firm of Dobbs & Co., with the name of the firm, "Dobbs", embossed below the bottom frame on several of the cards.
Acquired by the Library with a copy of the published deck of 26 lithographed cards, entitled "The landscape alphabet : drawn on stone" (London ; Paris : Engelmann, Graf, Coindet & Co., 1830) (PML 86070); and a copy of the published volume featuring the same designs, issued the same year by Engelmann (The landscape alphabet. London ; Paris : Engelmann, Graf, Coindet & Co., 1830) (PML 86071).
Original drawings executed for a set of lithographed landscape views featuring alphabetic designs, published in 1830 by Engelmann, Graf, Coindet & Co. and issued both in the form of an illustrated book and a deck of illustrated cards; 19 of the drawings are signed with the artist's initials, "E.K.", indicating that the set may possibly be the work of miniature painter Emma E. Kendrick. Cf. Twyman.
Drawings on individual cards decorated with embossed borders by the firm of Dobbs & Co., with the name of the firm, "Dobbs", embossed below the bottom frame on several of the cards.
Acquired by the Library with a copy of the published deck of 26 lithographed cards, entitled "The landscape alphabet : drawn on stone" (London ; Paris : Engelmann, Graf, Coindet & Co., 1830) (PML 86070); and a copy of the published volume featuring the same designs, issued the same year by Engelmann (The landscape alphabet. London ; Paris : Engelmann, Graf, Coindet & Co., 1830) (PML 86071).
Description
33 drawings.
Inscriptions/Markings
19 of the 33 individual drawings are initialed "EK" [i.e. Emma Eleanora Kendrick?] in ink within the designs.
Provenance
Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from The Book Block, Aug. 1992.
Summary
A set of 33 drawings of landscape views, each incorporating a letter of the alphabet in the design, with cards representing the 26 letters of the alphabet, plus alternate designs for the seven letters C, H, M, O, W, Y, Z.
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