Toy and movable books -- Specimens
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
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
Overview:
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
Peter Newell family papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 62
Overview:
The Peter Newell Family Papers consists of correspondence, manuscripts, printed material, photographs, drawings, paintings, prints, toys, and sculpture by or relating to Peter Newell and his family, including his sons-in-law Howard McCormick and Alfred Z. Baker. Correspondence files contain letters from artists, writers, and editors of the period; family in Kansas, Illinois, New Jersey; Clendenon Sheaf Newell at Cornell University; as well as family friends Frances Sage Bradley, Walter Karig...
Dates:
1840-1986, bulk 1884-1950