Rice drawings
- Bib ID:
- 7252084
- Format:
- Picture
- Description:
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- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1840?]
- 1 volume (unnumbered) : illustrations (chiefly colour) paintings, portraits ; 37.5 x 27.5 cm
- Series:
- Pith painting and trade art collections.
- Summary:
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Chinese watercolour gouache paintings on pith in a 19th century scrapbook. The album features handsome gouache paintings on pith including two paintings showing botanical subjects, three large full pith sheets showing birds and accompanying floral decorations with a further two half size paintings of birds on pith, four show striking junks, two showing women - one sitting reading and the other dancing both with furniture in the background. and there is a single page with eight birds and one small basket of flowers painted on pith each delicately trimmed and arranged on a page (one image of a bird is missing). The album also includes 3 pencil drawings, including two which spell out H Tew in a most effective combination of architectural and arboreal motifs. At the rear of the album are many engravings mostly in their original black and white showing scenes from the Middle East, British, European and American scenes. Title pages from Fisher's Views of Syria, The Holy Land, Asia Minor Illustrated etc; Beauties of the Bosphorus are included together with popular engravings of foreign locations including three US views and a number of Switzerland and England. As is sadly often the case with such scrapbooks some images, including smaller paintings on pith, are missing and some leaves have been removed. The paintings on pith paper have some small occasional splits or holes but there is little damage to the paintings themselves with the exception of one of the paintings of a junk in which a 5 x 7cm section is missing from the sea surround along the lower edge. Two of the smaller paintings on pith lack the left hand paper border and a number of the European prints are damaged and torn with loss.
- Notes:
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- Cover title.
- Individual 14 Chinese pith paintings also have been cataloged sepaerately.
- The bookplate on the front paste down of this charming scrapbook album announces that it belonged to the Reverend William Tew, who was a Protestant minister in County Kildare, Ireland, in the late 18th and first part of the 19th century. Opposite in a neat hand is written Hester Tew and dated January 6. 1840. It is unclear what the relationship between William and Hester Tew was but it is likely she was his daughter or niece.
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Since 1910 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Artistic
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1840
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