Miscellany volume on art perspective and color, Shakespeare's plays, wordbook of Shakespeare's poems [manuscript], 1870s.
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Miscellany volume on art perspective and color, Shakespeare's plays, wordbook of Shakespeare's poems [manuscript], 1870s.
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31 p., 32 watercolors, 57 p.
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Contents
Volume in three parts: I. Art manual containing notes and watercolour blendings with clear references to the chromatic studies of Michel Eugene Chevreul (1786-1889), whose The Laws of Contrast of Colour (English translation 1861) was highly influential during the mid-to-late 19th Century. Included are 7 sepia-wash studies illustrating (with notes) the principles of Chevreul's Illusion, 3 sepia watercolours of Tuscany scenes, 11 tree studies, a couple of seascapes, assorted other delicate studies of various items including ducks, a few anatomical drawings in pencil, and some detailed notes on colour blendings. Tipped in are 2 larger watercolour landscapes on separate leaves. (31 p.); II.-II. The other 57 pages, in a different hand, start with a fascinating chronological table of dated Shakespeare plays in which the unidentified author references the works of Malone, Collier, Halliwell-Phillips and Dyce as sources. The Chronology is followed by 13 pages of detailed notes on individual Shakespeare plays, the longest of which concerns Julius Caesar and is dated April 5, 1874. The volume then evolves into the workbook of a practicing poet with multiple amended drafts of various poems under working titles such as Calypso, The Tragic Actor, Bridal Song, Life, The Pleiades and On The Death Of Benjamin Disraeli. There are also some later inserts, one of which is a written critique of Ignatius Donellys cypher.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England.
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FAST ACC 271652 (folio)
Folger accession
271652