Visual Materials

Collection of Sir Walter Scott prints

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Description: This collection contains three prints depicting Scottish novelist and poet Sir Walter Scott.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1900s-1920s.
Call number: priPEF 64
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In library as of January 2025.
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.

Sir Walter Scott collection

Manuscripts

A collection of letters written by Sir Walter Scott. Correspondents in the collection include James Boswell; John Cam Hobhouse, Baron Broughton; George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron; William Chisholm; John Wilson Croker; Charles Erskine; Matthew Weld Hartstonge; and William Laidlaw. The collection also includes three forged letters, allegedly by Scott, created by Alexander "Antique" Howland Smith.

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Sir Walter Scott collection

Manuscripts

mssScottwa

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Original Letters of Sir Walter Scott

Manuscripts

An autograph list in an unknown hand of the Original Letters of Sir Walter Scott, including addressee, date, place of origin and important content. The list also contains 7 blank pages for a total of 15 pages and two autograph notes about the provenance of the list.

mssHM 68516

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Prints of paintings in the Vernon Gallery

Visual Materials

This collection contains three prints of paintings in the Vernon Gallery: The Age of Innocence by Sir Joshua Renyolds, The Woodland Gate by William Collins, and The Scanty Meal by J.F. Herring.

priPEF 59

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James Thomas Fields photograph collection

Visual Materials

A small group of 19th century photographs highlighted by portraits of American and British literary figures and early photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron and the studio of Hill & Adamson. Cameron's photographs are two cabinet cards lithographed with gold borders and facsimile inscriptions on the mounts that read: "From life. Copyright Julia Margaret Cameron." The subjects are Annie Chinery (1868) and Mary Hillier (1870; marked in pencil on the mount "Angel at the Tomb."). There are also two calotype process salt prints made 1843-1848 by Scottish photography pioneers David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson (studio of Hill & Adamson), depicting Scottish fishwives. A third salt print, of a statue of "Oenone," may also be by Hill & Adamson, but this has not been verified. Other photographs in the collection are: portraits of Mary Cowden Clarke, William Dean Howells, Margaret Perry La Farge, Gerald Massey, and Frederick W. Robertson (an etching); William Wordsworth's grave; Tennyson's house, Isle of Wight; Dryburgh Abbey, resting place of Sir Walter Scott; "Les Charmettes," home of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, France. There are also landscape views of Valley of the Rocks, Devon; pine trees in Cannes, France; Alte Münze, a former palace in Munich; a house in St. Augustine, Florida; and three views of the Boston Public Garden.

photCL 246

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Agreement regarding the ship Walter Scott

Manuscripts

This document concerns ownership details of the ship Walter Scott, bound for California as of April 1849. With six signatures.

mssHM 4160

Collection of Sir Walter Scott prints

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