Accession number
PML 88549
Published
London : Published by S. & J. Fuller, Rathbone Place, [ca. 1820]
Credit line
Gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1991.
Notes
Title and imprint from label on panorama drum.
"Price 1.1.0."--label on panorama drum.
Date from Abbey and Schwerdt.
Originally a series of 35 scenes (library's copy lacking scenes 1-2 (The nursery - First toys) and 35 (The family circle)) depicting incidents in the life of a squire's son, including: Learning to ride--In the schoolroom--College pranks--Joining the army--Hunting--Cock fighting--Liberation--Gretna Green, etc. Publisher's label (lacking) on verso of first scene, lettered: "Panorama of the progress of human life, fashionably display'd illustrating Shakespeare's ages and giving at the same time the manners, costume, amusements, and the field sports of the English people, the whole illustrative of modern characters in a series of many hundreds of moving figures" (Abbey)
The illustrations are by Henry Thomas Alken, the scenes being miniature adaptations of plates in National Field Sports (Abbey)
"Price 1.1.0."--label on panorama drum.
Date from Abbey and Schwerdt.
Originally a series of 35 scenes (library's copy lacking scenes 1-2 (The nursery - First toys) and 35 (The family circle)) depicting incidents in the life of a squire's son, including: Learning to ride--In the schoolroom--College pranks--Joining the army--Hunting--Cock fighting--Liberation--Gretna Green, etc. Publisher's label (lacking) on verso of first scene, lettered: "Panorama of the progress of human life, fashionably display'd illustrating Shakespeare's ages and giving at the same time the manners, costume, amusements, and the field sports of the English people, the whole illustrative of modern characters in a series of many hundreds of moving figures" (Abbey)
The illustrations are by Henry Thomas Alken, the scenes being miniature adaptations of plates in National Field Sports (Abbey)
Description
1 panorama : wood and paper, hand col. ill. (aquatint) ; 6.7 x ca. 425 cm (strip)
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
In publisher's boxwood container with hand-colored, varnished engraved title label, showing two soldiers on horseback. 11 x 5 (diam.) cm (drum) In tan cloth box, with brown morocco spine stamped in gold: 19JPW61.
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