Accession number
PML 147623
Creator
Macleod, Flora, active 19th century, collector.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from a printed cover sheet issued with an album published by J. Poole for use as a scrapbook and pasted onto the front flyleaf of the volume; the text, printed in gold on coated paper, continues: A New Year's gift, presented by [blank] to [blank] London : J. Poole, Newgate Street.
Selected items in this volume have been cataloged separately.
Scrapbook evidently created by Miss Flora Macleod in 1827-1830, containing numerous prints, souvenirs, and pieces of printed and manuscript memorabilia, along with written entries inscribed onto the album leaves by Miss Macleod, with much of the material relating to her time spent in France in the company of Madame de Genlis during the year 1827; compiled and pasted into a commercialy issued album prepared and marketed for the purpose by J. Poole of London, an early and noted publisher and promoter of both scrapbook albums and scrapbooking as a popular pasttime.
The contents of the date from the 16th century to 1830, with the dated entries and manuscript items generally dating from 1827; the printed items collected by the compiler include a set of 16th century engravings by Lambert Suavius (i.e. Zutman), a handful of 18th century etchings and engravings, and a large number of French lithographs and figures removed from lithographic prints which probably date from the 1820s, and were presumably acquired by Miss Macleod during her stay in France in 1827; also included is a ticket for the coronation of William IV which took place on 26 June 1830, addressed to Flora Macleod, and a ticket for the coronation of Queen Victoria, June 28, 1838, admitting "the bearer Waldegrave," both evidently added to the album at a later date.
Selected items in this volume have been cataloged separately.
Scrapbook evidently created by Miss Flora Macleod in 1827-1830, containing numerous prints, souvenirs, and pieces of printed and manuscript memorabilia, along with written entries inscribed onto the album leaves by Miss Macleod, with much of the material relating to her time spent in France in the company of Madame de Genlis during the year 1827; compiled and pasted into a commercialy issued album prepared and marketed for the purpose by J. Poole of London, an early and noted publisher and promoter of both scrapbook albums and scrapbooking as a popular pasttime.
The contents of the date from the 16th century to 1830, with the dated entries and manuscript items generally dating from 1827; the printed items collected by the compiler include a set of 16th century engravings by Lambert Suavius (i.e. Zutman), a handful of 18th century etchings and engravings, and a large number of French lithographs and figures removed from lithographic prints which probably date from the 1820s, and were presumably acquired by Miss Macleod during her stay in France in 1827; also included is a ticket for the coronation of William IV which took place on 26 June 1830, addressed to Flora Macleod, and a ticket for the coronation of Queen Victoria, June 28, 1838, admitting "the bearer Waldegrave," both evidently added to the album at a later date.
Description
1 v. (109 pages) ; 37 x 27 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Scrapbook compiled by Miss Flora Macleod ca. 1827, and containing a wide range of assembled materials, including hand-colored French lithographic caricatures of the 1820s, figures cut-out of popular prints and illustrations of the day, specimens of older prints, drawings, printed invitations, manuscript poems presented to her by Madame de Genlis and others, and notes, verses, and literary passages in the hand of the album's creator, some of them recording recording anecdotes, jests, observations, with a few longer passages on historical subjects. Many of Miss Macleod's manuscript entries into the volume are dated 1827, as are a number of the manuscript notes and poems addressed to her, suggesting that the contents of album were, with a few exceptions, added by her over the course of that year. Subjects represented in the volume and which appear to have been of particular interest to its creator include the French stage and the actor F.J. Talma, whose portrait is included on page 18 with a small strip of black felt removed, according to the inscription below, from his coffin on October 19, 1827, when his body was relocated on the anniversary of his death; Napoleon Bonaparte and other French military and political figures (including a lithographic print of Napoleon's horse Vizir); and monuments and views of Boulogne-sur-Mer, where she appears to have visited in the summer of 1827. Items testifying to her various friendships and associations during that time include two privately produced lithographs and a small sketch of the Chateau de Villebon, presented to Miss Macleod by author and artist Louisa S. Costello; a piece of birch bark "paper" from Russia given to her by Madame de Genlis, a watercolor of a rose accompanied by a manuscript poem with, "à Miss Flora cette rose" and signed "D Ctesse Genlis", a small grapite sketch of a castle signed "D. Genlis", and a note addressed to "To the charming Flora" by "D Ctesse de Genlis" (affixed below a lithographic portrait of Madame de Genlis). Also included are printed invitations to balls and galas addressed to Miss Macleod in Paris, as well as a few of the items that were printed in England, including two engraved tickets of admission to the coronation of William IV on 26 June 1830. The majority of the prints are examples of or figures removed from popular lithographic caricatures and genre prints, as well as topographical views and portraits of French notables. Examples of earlier prints include a set of 12 engravings of Christ and the Apostles by Lambert Zutman; 5 small etchings by J.B. Le Prince; and a series of 18 engravings after C.N. Cochin to illustrate the Almanach iconologique (Paris, 1765-1781). Among the larger genre prints are included impressions of two French aquatints entitled "Les ecoliers en desordre" by Esbrard after Henry Richter (1825) and "Roquelaure exilé sur les terres d'Espagne", a hand colored impression of the English aquatint "I'd be a butterfly born in a bower..." after Joseph Lisle (London : S. Gans, 1830), and a stipple engraving entitled "Le boeuf a la mode" by Louis Charles Ruotte the Elder (1797).
Binding
Pink calf blocked in gold and in blind.
Classification
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