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Fanny English manuscript and illustrations of Peter Rabbit 0.03 Cubic Feet One letter-size file folder

This collection contains a manuscript album created by Fanny Hutchinson King English (1871–1944) as a gift for her daughter Mary (1904–1976) in 1907, when Mary was three years old. A bookseller's ticket is affixed to the pastedown, and a gift inscription reading "Mary Dennis English. March 10, 1907" appears on the opposite pastedown. The album comprises twenty-eight pages of manuscript and watercolor illustration and contains three pieces of correspondence laid in. One side of the dos-a-dos book duplicates a post-1903 edition of Beatrix Potter's "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" in manuscript and watercolor illustration, identifiable as a post-1903 edition by the substitution of "Peter shed big tears" for the first edition's "Peter wept." The reverse side contains six original botanical and landscape watercolors by Mary English, executed at an unspecified later date. Two watercolors are laid in: a collection of daisies inscribed "Mama darling" on verso, and a horse labeled "Limerick" on recto with the inscription "To darling, darling Mummy from Mary" on verso, dated 1918. The three pieces of correspondence laid in include letters from Mary's grandmother Rachel Anne English (1832–1920) and from Fanny to Mary, written across Mary's childhood and adulthood.

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

Florence Eleanor Paget sketchbook and herbaria 0.13 Cubic Feet one legal-sized file folder and one small flat box Box 13, Folder 5, Flat_Box Herbaria_restricted

Florence Eleanor Paget (1887-1965) was a professional nature illustrator and artist from England who studied under George Vernon Stokes, a British wildlife and landscape artist. She made these books when she was a young woman, roughly between 1900 and 1910.

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
  2. The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building.
  3. Series 3. 1900-1980

Julie Baugnet COVID-19 sketchbooks and notes 0.2 Cubic Feet One letter-sized half-width document box

Baugnet, Julie

This collection contains two notebooks and two sketchbooks kept by Julie Baugnet, a book artist and painter from St. Paul, Minnesota. The notebooks contain Baugnet's observations of epidemiologists and other experts as well as other information on COVID-19 that was being publicly disseminated and notes for her COVID-19 projects. "Covid Notes #1" is dated February 21, and features Baugnet's notes on Dr. Michael Osterholm's podcast on the pandemic. On the cover of the notebook is "info for my journals and sketchbooks" and on its interior end page are descriptions of her "Covid Journals # 1-33" projects. The notes date from 2021 and appear to be ideas for journals 3 and 4. The second notebook is titled "Covid Notes #2, 2020-2021" and is a continuation of Baugnet's notes on the same Osterholm podcast. The notebook entries are dated from 2021 to 2022. The content of the two notebooks, aside from notetaking on Osterholm's outlook, discusses themes of sheltering, isolation, spread of COVID-19, vaccinations, schools, maintaining relationships during the lockdowns, alterations to holiday traditions, and ideas and notes for her COVID-19 related book projects.

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

Mid-century Art Student's sketchbook, most likely living in New York City 0.04 Cubic Feet Box 13, Folder 6

This addition to MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains a spiral-bound sketchbook belonging to an unnamed art student, most likely living in New York City. Page one of the sketchbook details the student's assignment: "DUE - 300 by June 2nd, Marked Chronologically." Traces of what may be an owner's name and grades of "B" and "B+" are written on the cover. Each sketch is numbered in pencil and is stamped between March and June 1952. The sketchbook's seventy leaves have drawings only on the recto. Drawings are completed in pencil, ink, and crayon. This student's sketches are primarily figure studies of those in transit on the subway. Other scenes include a roller derby skater, pin-up figure, river traffic with a bridge, a parked car, a cat, and exotic animals.

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
  2. The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building.
  3. Series 4. 1950-2014

The Devil's Steeplechase .03 Cubic Feet one letter-sized folder

This collection contains an anonymous sketchbook containing a highly illustrated handwritten gothic story, additional watercolor paintings, and numerous pen and ink sketches. The primary story pertains to a horse race between the devil and death that takes place on March 12, 1830. It is likely a satire on the first English National Steeplechase, which was run in Bedfordshire on March 8, 1830, and was the precursor of the Grand National race at Aintree. Nine full-page watercolors are devoted to the primary gothic steeplechase story, each with a narrative on the facing page. The story is a morbid variant of the turtle and the hare fable, with the Devil taking an auspicious start but as the Devil relaxes, the Death recovers, catches up and wins, and celebrates his victory by throwing his head (which is a skull) in the air and catching it. In addition to the steeplechase illustrated story, there are three other watercolors of riding, two of these in a steeplechase or a foxhunt. There are also eleven other pages with pen and ink drawings, in varying states of finish, plus three pages heavy with text, and the endpapers are filled with sketches. The other illustration includes a page of silhouettes, which are on military or equestrian themes. Also in the manuscript is a four-page rendering of the Tragedy" from the Ingoldsby Legends" which recounts the story of Catherine of Cleves.

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

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