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Title

Hubert Thomas Parker scrapbook album, ca. 1820-1831, 1857 or after.

Author

Parker, Hubert Thomas

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• Murray, A. H. Hallam (Alexander Henry Hallam), 1854-1934.
• Parker, Hubert Thomas

Description

1 volume (77 total leaves, several blank) : ill.; 26 cm.

Summary

Leather-bound album containing artwork and manuscript entries, presumably by friends and relatives of the Rev. Hubert Thomas Parker. The visual works include: watercolor illustrations of the development stages of the water-beetle, the nettle butterfly, and the dragonfly; a pencil drawing of St. Mary's Church, Hampton Lovett; a watercolor of "Lake of Sarden [i.e., Sarnen]," Switzerland; a pencil drawing of Lord Byron; a watercolor of a "Fossil fish found on Garzington Hill Oxon. 1820"; and other pieces, depicting pastoral landscapes, ruins, domestic scenes, birds, and other animals. Among the manuscript entries are: six pages of extracts from James Patrick Muirhead's anthology Winged Words on Chantrey's Woodcocks, with tracings of engravings from that book, each of the fifteen extracts signed by its writer; poetical extracts from Felicia Hemans, Catherine Fanshawe, and Moses Browne; notes on the ruins of Port Royal copied from Mary Anne Schimmelpeninck's Select Memoirs of Port Royal; and an extract from "Recollections of an eventful life, chiefly passed in the army, by a soldier, 1824, Glasgow." Dated items range from 1820 to 1831. The extracts on Chantrey's woodcocks are undated but are no earlier than 1857, when Muirhead's book was published. Laid in is a 1902 autograph letter signed A.H. Hallam Murray, thanking his recipient ("Dear Madam") for allowing him to see her grandfather's album, explaining the Byron portrait is a copy after G. H. Harlow.

Subjects

• Watercolors (paintings)
• Scrapbooks
• Drawings (visual works)
• English poetry > 19th century > Manuscripts > Specimens

Genre/Form

• Scrapbooks.
• Watercolors (paintings)
• Drawings (visual works)

Note

• With the manuscript bookplate of "The Rev. Hubert Thos. Parker" on the front paste-down.

Access (note)

• Restricted access;

Biography (note)

• The Rev. Hubert Thos. Parker could not be identified. Places mentioned in the scrapbook suggest he may have lived in or around Worcester, England. Artist signatures include: Mary Parker, Eliz[abe]th Horsley, M. Thornicraft, L. Paget, S. Smith of Worcester, and many sets of initials. "C. H. P." appears frequently, and is the artist of "Fossil fish found on Garzington Hill Oxon. 1820"; this could be Charles Hubert Parker (d. 1883), rector of Great Comberton, co. Worcester (cf. Alumni Oxonienses).

Call Number

Pforz BND-MSS (Parker, H. T.)

OCLC

843119442

Author

Parker, Hubert Thomas, compiler.

Title

Hubert Thomas Parker scrapbook album, ca. 1820-1831, 1857 or after.

Access

Restricted access; Pforzheimer Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Biography

The Rev. Hubert Thos. Parker could not be identified. Places mentioned in the scrapbook suggest he may have lived in or around Worcester, England. Artist signatures include: Mary Parker, Eliz[abe]th Horsley, M. Thornicraft, L. Paget, S. Smith of Worcester, and many sets of initials. "C. H. P." appears frequently, and is the artist of "Fossil fish found on Garzington Hill Oxon. 1820"; this could be Charles Hubert Parker (d. 1883), rector of Great Comberton, co. Worcester (cf. Alumni Oxonienses).

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Murray, A. H. Hallam (Alexander Henry Hallam), 1854-1934.

Parker, Hubert Thomas, former owner.

Research Call Number

Pforz BND-MSS (Parker, H. T.)