[Vignette drawings to illustrate Characteristics of women [graphic] / [Anna Jameson].

[mid-19th century]

15 items in 2 vol. : pencil, brown ink and wash, ink and watercolor.

paper

Artist: Mrs. Jameson has been credited with designing the vignettes which were etched for illustration to her work The characteristics of women. The sketches are unsigned (but for the one signed by Hayter) as are the engravings. The Folger has a volume with sketches by Hayter (ART Vol. d2), one of which appears to be a sketch for an engraving, used in Jameson's work, of Juliet leaning over the body of Romeo. Hayter's series of sketches for his work on Fanny Kemble as Juliet was accompanied by text by Mrs. Jameson. It is highly likely that Hayter was responsible for some of the designs for Characteristics of women. The one design that is signed by Hayter, however, is reproduced in a later American edition of the work with the signature of Mrs. Jameson upon it.

Drawings are tipped into an edition of the work along with proofs of the resulting etchings. One of the items is dated 1832 and signed John Hayter.

History: Sketches were drawn as designs for engravings which illustrated Jameson's second edition of Characteristics of women. I have been unable to look at the first edition of the work and so do not know if the same designs were used. Some of these designs were, however, used again in later editions. In the case of the American edition the signature 'Anna' was added to them. The second edition was published in 1833, the American edition in 1837.

Provenance: Items are tipped into Mrs. Jameson's The characteristics of women, moral, poetical and historical ... second edition, London : Saunders and Otley, 1833. The work was previously published under the title Shakespeare's heroines. Volumes were purchased by the Folgers from Maggs Bros. in July of 1924.

Published work: Jameson, Mrs. Anna: Characteristics of women ... London : Saunders and Otley, 1833.

Subject: Sketches are tipped in for the following Shakespearean subjects: Helen, Portia's ring, Isabella, Viola and the Duke, Hermione, Desdemona, the castle of Margaret of Anjou, and Lady Macbeth. The sketch signed by Hayter pictures a dog with a feather in its mouth next to an urn which has the name Beatrice sculptured into its pedestal.

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Great Britain -- England.

PR 2991 J28 Ex.ill.

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