Manuscripts
Victorian album of collages
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- Description
- This album is composed of 12 original collages inserted into decorated paper-covered front and rear boards. Collages are made with paper, silk ribbons, flowers, dyed wool, shells, leaves, cut-outs from various printed sources, and lithographs. The collagist was likely an Irish Catholic young woman, either from or living in Avoca, Wicklow County, Ireland (there is a collage page with the title "Sweet Vale Avoca"). Each collage speaks to a different theme ranging from rural life, nature, a childhood home, childhood, youth, communion, perceptions of old age, and a haunted house. Each collage has a title and handwritten pasted-down captions, some coming from popular songs and verse including Thomas Moore's "The Meeting of the Waters." Housed in a slip case with gilt title "ALBUM ANGLAIS."
- Production date
- approximately 1880.
- Call number
- mssHM 84002
- Provenance
- Purchased from Sims Reed Rare Books, February 2020. Sims Reed acquired the volume from the Paris auction house, Binoche et Giquello, Lot 97 in the 2014 sale of the "Bibliotèque Jean-Claude Carrièré."
