Volume 12, page 214. Horace Walpole and his world.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Drawing with two scenes: 'the back parlour" in an oval within a larger rectangular view of a 'park wall'. The park wall is covered in ivy and at its base, lush ferns and other plants and mushrooms, ferns and at the top a stand of trees. The oval inset in the lower right shows a man view from behind, sitting in a chair looking out a window at a city street scene and two birds at perched on the vine before a leadlight casement window
Description:
Title written below image, from a quotation by Horace Walpole's letter to Miss Berry December 1793: "A park-wall with ivy on it and fern near it, and a back parlour in London in summer, with a dead creeper and a couple of sooty sparrows, are my strongest ideas of melancholy solitude. A pleasing melancholy is a very august personage, but not at all good company.”, Signed and dated by the artist in lower left corner of image., Place of production inferred from artist's city of residence during this time period., Page reference for quotation written below title: Page 288., and Bound in as page 214 in volume 12 of M.C.D. Borden's extensively extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole and his world / edited by L. B. Seeley ... London : Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1884.
Subject (Topic):
Parlors, Garden walls, Casement windows, and Depression (Mental state)
Harper's Weekly (33:1703), page 637, cover. By W. A. Rogers. Although this is a "tenement" there is an orientalist print (=Sephardic?) on the wall above a fireplace mantle; also note the doctor is taking pulse from wrist, without using a watch, while listening directly to the chest (heart or lungs?) without a stethoscope of any kind. No medical accoutrements other than the doctor's bag are seen. On page 651 (not included), the cover picture is mentioned: "The picture which appears on another page is an accurate representation of what was seen on a recent trip made in company with Dr. Davies Coxe, of the Summer Corps of the Board of Health." The "summer corps" is discussed in an editorial in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper (54:1401), July 29, 1882, page 354 without illustrations. Hansen database #1540.
Puck (18:454), page184-185, center of a complete issue. "Uncremated Mugwump (from outside) 'If those old Bourbons take that…me, they'll be a little startled when they find out that I'm alive-and kicking'!" Cremation, but no technical information on cremation is provided in the picture. Hansen database #580.
