Album containing drawings, prints, manuscript pages and newspaper clippings

Marcus Clayton Stone British
After Thomas Sidney Cooper British

Not on view

An album with 30 leaves mounted with 130 drawings, 24 prints, 2 newpaper clippings and several sets of pages of manuscript text copied from letters. Some drawings are dated 1850, 1855-56, 1858, 1861, and 1864. One group of manuscript pages are copied from a book of Charles Dickens's Letters, published 1880. Binding of grey-green paper covered boards with navy blue leather gilt spine and corners.

Leaf 1 recto: 2 small watercolor portraits of girls (1850); 2 landscape drawings, ink and bodycolor (1855).
Leaf 1 verso: 5 graphite drawings, single figures, figures in a theater, two men in an interior.
Leaf 2 recto: 4 graphite drawings of Mendelsson composing at the piano, a seated woman, a man smoking a pipe, and a young man in medieval garb listening to a bird (3 dated 1856); 2 ink drawings on envelopes with stamps (1855, 1858).
Leaf 2 verso: 6 pen and ink sketches: a man and young woman or youth, man sleeping in an armchair, two men in eighteenth century dress at a table; young man facing right; bearded man facing left; female figure holding a laurel branch flying through the sky with dome in the distance; a graphite drawing of a man in a straw hat leaning through a window and smoking.
Leaf 3 recto: 15 ink sketches of figures, a graphite drawing of a young woman's head, facing right, a red chalk drawing of a hand.
Leaf 3 verso: watercolor sketch for "The Painter's First Work," 1862 (California, Palace of the Legion of Honor; shows an 18th century artist such as Joshua Reynolds or Thomas Gainsborough, as a child, being scolded for making chalk drawings on the paneling).
Leaf 4 recto: 5 graphite drawings of figures, on showing a woman fainting; 1 red chalk drawing of a woman's head.
Leaf 4 verso: 13 ink drawings of figures.
Leaf 5 recto: 5 ink drawings of a kneeling child praying, 3 graphite drawings of heads. A clipped manuscript signature of F. Stone.
Leaf 5 verso-Leaf 6 recto: 11 wood engravings: the months (July missing).
Leaf 6 verso-Leaf 7 recto: 1 ink drawing on a stamped envelope, 1 ink sketch of John the Baptist; handwritten correspondence between Lady Seymour and Lady Shuckburgh asking references for a cook.
Leaf 7 verso: 16 ink sketches of figures, a tea serivce, a writing set, and a desk (several dated 1864).
Leaf 8 recto: Clipping: "Will of Sir Francis Chantrey"; engraved view of Manchester Infirmary.
Leaf 8 verso: engraving of a dancing fairy.
Leaf 9 recto: ink drawing of a dancy fairy (study for the preceding), ink drawing of a lady in 17th century dress seated on a stone bench.
Leaf 9 verso: 10 graphite sketches of figures, 1 ink sketch of an overgrown stone buidling with a rabbit.
Leaf 10 recto: 3 graphite sketches of a dog, a man's head and a woman seated at a piano (dated April '64); 5 ink sketches of figures.
Leaf 10 verso: 11 ink sketches, 1 ink drawing of a hermit and cross in a landscape.
Leaf 11 recto: 2 ink stetches of figures, chalk and ink drawings of hands (one dated October 1861), a red chalk drawing of a youth's head ink in profile; two ink sketches of a young Frenchman and girl in a coastal village.
Leaf 11 verso: 3 ink sketches of figures, one in blue ink.
Leaf 12: blank
Leaf 13 verso: ink drawings of a woman's head and a woman standing next to a large achor.
Leaf 14 recto: ink drawing of a standing woman.
Leaf 14 verso–15 recto: manuscript ink text on blue paper.
Leaf 16 verso–17 recto: manuscript ink text on cream paper: "Letter from Dr. Johnson to Lord Chesterfield after the publication of his Dictionary."
Leaves 18-20: blank
Leaf 21 recto: Male portrait head, red and black chalks, touched with white on gray paper (graphite sketches verso of the sheet).
Leaf 21 verso: manuscript ink text on cream paper: "From Letters of Charles Dickens, Chapman and Hall, 1880."
Leaf 22 verso–Leaf 23 verso: 11 wood engravings: "The Strollers' Encampment"; "Eleanor and Rachel"; "Geoffrey Reveals the Family Secret"; "Eleanor Tedder the Belle of the Ball"; "Tumbler Pigeon and his Juvenile Troupe"; "Old Schurlock's Deathbed Revelations"; "Eleanor Seemingly Unconscious of Vaughan's Presence"; "Nell Crooke's Revenge Upon the Wealthy Merchant"; "Tom Acting as the Tinker's Purveyor"; "The Haunted Chamber in the Priory"; "The Tinker and Card-Sharper Planning a Robbery."
Leaves 24-29: blank.
Leaf 30 recto: 2 wood engravings: "The Keeper's Nightmare" and "A Stroke of Business."
Leaf 30 verso: 1 wood engraving of sheep after "Tom Cooper" (Thomas Sidney Cooper).

Album containing drawings, prints, manuscript pages and newspaper clippings, Marcus Clayton Stone (British, London 1840–1921 London), Watercolor, pen and ink, wood engravings, engravings, printed text

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Sketch for "A Young Painter's First Works," watercolor, 13.1 x 18 cm.