Manuscripts
Ann Jordan album; or selections from many authors; interspersed with drawings and poetry, 1828-approximately 1885
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- Description
- An illustrated commonplace album with transcribed verses, watercolors, and drawings; the album was a gift to Ann Jordan from her brother W. P. Jordan in 1828. The album contains 27 watercolor illustrations including flowers and butterflies (the latter usually cut and pasted to various leaves), and nine pencil sketches. Also included are poems by Thomas H. Bayly, Mary Ann Browne, Lady Byron, Lord Byron, Benjamin Franklin, Oliver Goldsmith, Peter Pindar (whose real name was John Wolcot), Ann Radcliffe, and George R. Sims. The album contains a number of blank pages and is bound in contemporary red half morocco; the corners and spine are worn and damaged.
- Date
- 1828-approximately 1885.
- Call number
- mssHM 84113
- Provenance
- Purchased from Justin Croft Antiquarian Books, October 2022.
- Restrictions
- Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
- Rights
- The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining permission rests with the researcher.
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Associated people
- Bayly, Thomas Haynes, (1797-1839.)
- Browne, Mary Ann, (1812-1844.)
- Byron, Anne Isabella Milbanke Byron, (1792-1860.)
- Byron, George Gordon Byron, (1788-1824.)
- Franklin, Benjamin, (1706-1790.)
- Goldsmith, Oliver, (1730?-1774.)
- Pindar, Peter, (1738-1819.)
- Radcliffe, Ann, (1764-1823.)
- Sims, George R., (1847-1922.)