Extra illustrations to Daly's Woffington [graphic] / David Edward Cronin.
1888
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Title
Extra illustrations to Daly's Woffington [graphic] / David Edward Cronin.
Created/published
1888.
Description
2 vol. : watercolor, pen and ink, ink wash.
Associated name
Material base
paper
Note
34 of the 182 printed pages of the book are colored by Cronin with drawings to illustrate the text. Cronin's work is done directly on the printed page. To the title page is added a note: 'with illustrations in pen-and-ink and watercolors by David Edward Cronin'.
Artist: Cronin is noted in reference sources as specializing in the hand illustrations of books. A letter to Daly, housed in the Folger collection (Y.c. 2949), from Cronin dated 2-9-1890, discusses Cronin's work on other hand illustration projects for Daly and includes a newspaper clipping from the N.Y. Standard discussing the value of "Major Cronin's" hand illustrated books. He was known to have done work for William Waldorf Astor and other noted figures of the day.
History: The printed work, Woffington, a tribute, was printed privately for Augustin Daly in 1888. This copy is noted on title page verso as no. 40 of 150 folio size copies printed and is signed by Augustin Daly. According to the dated note on the title page Cronin did his hand illustrations in the year the work was published.
Provenance: These volumes were at one time housed in the collection of Augustin Daly and are listed in the catalog of the sale of that library by the American Art Gallery in 1900, as item no.724. The book apparently passed into the hands of Livingston Ludlow Biddle, whose bookplate it bears and was purchased by the Folgers from Stan V. Henkels (a Philadelphia bookseller) Oct. 11, 1929. Work is listed as item no. 231 in Henkel's catalog no. 1436.
Subject: The majority of the drawings are vignettes, illustrating some reference in the text which is usually underlined in red. Among the notable illustrations are portraits of Augustin Daly, Woffington, Nell Gwynn, Hogarth, and David Garrick. The poem from David Garrick 'To Peggy' is illustrated along the margins with several quaint watercolors. A pen and ink sketch of the front of the Smock Alley Theatre is included and a note underneath the sketch says that it is copied from page 500 of Gentleman's Magazine Vol LIX, Pt. 1.
This record contains unverified data from old cards and may contain incorrect or incomplete text. Please consult Curator for assistance.
Artist: Cronin is noted in reference sources as specializing in the hand illustrations of books. A letter to Daly, housed in the Folger collection (Y.c. 2949), from Cronin dated 2-9-1890, discusses Cronin's work on other hand illustration projects for Daly and includes a newspaper clipping from the N.Y. Standard discussing the value of "Major Cronin's" hand illustrated books. He was known to have done work for William Waldorf Astor and other noted figures of the day.
History: The printed work, Woffington, a tribute, was printed privately for Augustin Daly in 1888. This copy is noted on title page verso as no. 40 of 150 folio size copies printed and is signed by Augustin Daly. According to the dated note on the title page Cronin did his hand illustrations in the year the work was published.
Provenance: These volumes were at one time housed in the collection of Augustin Daly and are listed in the catalog of the sale of that library by the American Art Gallery in 1900, as item no.724. The book apparently passed into the hands of Livingston Ludlow Biddle, whose bookplate it bears and was purchased by the Folgers from Stan V. Henkels (a Philadelphia bookseller) Oct. 11, 1929. Work is listed as item no. 231 in Henkel's catalog no. 1436.
Subject: The majority of the drawings are vignettes, illustrating some reference in the text which is usually underlined in red. Among the notable illustrations are portraits of Augustin Daly, Woffington, Nell Gwynn, Hogarth, and David Garrick. The poem from David Garrick 'To Peggy' is illustrated along the margins with several quaint watercolors. A pen and ink sketch of the front of the Smock Alley Theatre is included and a note underneath the sketch says that it is copied from page 500 of Gentleman's Magazine Vol LIX, Pt. 1.
This record contains unverified data from old cards and may contain incorrect or incomplete text. Please consult Curator for assistance.
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Call number
ART Vol. b41 (pictorial content)
Folger accession
cs1949