Sands, Benjamin
Person
Biography
Benjamin Sands, poet.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Metamorphosis : amateur drawings and paintings that replicate the publication by Benjamin Sands
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 566
Abstract:
Four discrete groups of drawings and paintings by amateur artists, probably created in North America, circa 1790-1820, that pay homage to the illustrations and text of "Metamorphosis, or A transformation of pictures, with poetical explanations: for the amusement of young persons," by Benjamin Sands, first published in North America in 1789. The groups of drawings and paintings are attributed to Esther Carpenter and Henry Perkins, as well as an unidentified artist. The groups replicate the...
Dates:
circa 1790-1820
Betsy Beinecke Shirley collection of American children's literature
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 764
Abstract:
Collection consists of manuscripts (correspondence and drafts of writings), illustration material (drawings in all media, photographs, book dummies, and printing blocks and plates), and publication proofs by various authors and artists including Louisa May Alcott, Alexander Anderson, Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel, Gelett Burgess, Harrison Cady, Palmer Cox, F. O. C. Darley, W. W. Denslow, Jo Mora, Peter Newell, and Symeon Shimin, as well as work produced for the McLoughlin Brothers...
Dates:
1640-2001