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Record Id:

032-002083390

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002083390

MDARK:

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ISAD(G)

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Add MS 50148

Title:

NOTEBOOK OF JAMES SMETHAM (b. 1821, d. 1889), painter, containing poems, partly original, and drawings; 1846-1854, n.d. Partly copies. Two poems printed, as by 'M. M.', in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 1841, p. 392, and reprinted in The Literary Works of James Smetham, ed. W. Davies, 1893, pp. 245, 247-8:- (1) Beg. 'O let me die at dawn', lacking the fourth stanza of the printed text and showing other variations. Reprinted in Letters of James Smetham, ed.

S. Smetham and W. Davies, 1891, pp. 341-2. f. 14b;- (2) Beg. 'Vow no more - I did not think'. f. 19. A third poem, beg. 'On thundered Pharaoh gaunt and fierce' (f. 9), printed, with verbal variations, in The Literary Works, pp. 277-8. Figure drawings, mostly of women, in pencil, on ff. 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 11, and, in pen-and-ink, on f. 10, many illustrating literary quotations written on facing pages. For a catalogue of Smetham's pictures, see E. G. Malins and M. Bishop, James Smetham and Francis Danby, 1974, pp. 39-54. See also Add. MS. 42577, ff. 159-162. Owned, 20th cent., by E. S. Quayle (name on f. 20).

Paper; ff. 20. Octavo. 1846-1854, n.d. Contemporary binding of maroon leather, gold- and blind-stamped and -tooled, with marbled end-papers. Some leaves excised.

Scope & Content:

James Smetham, painter: Notebook containing poems and drawings: circa 1846-1854.

includes:

ff. 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11 Art. Illuminations and Drawings ENGLISH: J. Smetham: pencil and pen-and-ink drawings: 1846-1853, n.d.
ff. 9, 12, 14b-19 Poetry ENGLISH: J. Smetham: poems: 1846-1854: Autogr.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002083390

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Hierarchy:

032-002083390

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not applicable

Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

1 item

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1846

End Date:

1854

Date Range:

1846-1854

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Custodial History:

E. S. Quayle: Owned, 20th cent.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Quayle, E S
Smetham, James, painter