In memoriam A.H.H.
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- Title:
- In memoriam A.H.H.
- Date:
- 1889 to 1892
- Creator:
- Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892, author
- Contributor:
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- Baskin, Lisa Unger, former owner
- Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture
- Lisa Unger Baskin Collection (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library)
- Traquair, Phoebe Anna, illuminator, scribe, binder
- Cunynghame, Henry H. (Henry Hardinge), Sir, 1848-1935, former owner
- Cunynghame, Henry H. (Henry Hardinge), Sir, 1848-1935, patron
- Hunt, William Holman, 1827-1910, signer
- Stanley, Maude, 1833-1915, contributor
- Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892, signer
- Description:
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Tennyson's In memoriam A.H.H. in manuscript with gouache and gilt illuminations on parchment by Phoebe Anna Traquair.
Phoebe Anna Traquair was a painter and decorative artist. She was born in 1852 in Dublin and died in 1936.
Title from title page.
Illuminated leaves are dated from 1889-1892.
Title page signed by Tennyson following its completion by Traquair.
Manuscript text and illuminations on recto and verso of most leaves. 7 leaves precede and follow the manuscript text.
Rubenstein Library copy 1: Binding: Full modeled natural goatskin over boards; silver catches and clasps with Traquair's cipher on catches, dated 93; back cover also with cipher.
Rubenstein Library copy 1: Handbill for Traquair's paintings at the Catholic Apostolic Church in Edinburgh, tipped onto leaf [6].
Rubenstein Library copy 1: Obituary of Maude Stanley, who secured Tennyson's signature, pasted onto leaf [5].
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- Produced: Edinburgh, 1889-1892.
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 1 volume (204 unnumbered pages) : vellum, illuminations ; 20 cm
- Digital Collection:
- David M. Rubenstein Library Rare Books & Manuscripts
- Catalog Record:
- https://search.library.duke.edu/nde/fulldisplay?context=L&vid=01DUKE_INST:DUKE&search_scope=MyInstitution&docid=alma990065191430108501
- Provenance:
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- Ownership history: Rubenstein Library copy 1: Manuscript inscription on preliminary leaf [3] of Henry Cunnyngham, who commissioned the manuscript, explaining how he met Traquair through Holman Hunt, and the origin of Tennyson's signature on the manuscript's title page.
- Ownership history: Rubenstein Library copy 1: Signature on verso of leaf [6]: W. Holman Hunt.
- Source of acquisition: Purchase; Lisa Unger Baskin; 062015 2015-0050-LUBMSS486
- Rights:
- Free Re-UsePublic Domain
- Related Resources:
- https://idn.duke.edu/ark:/87924/r4fr0119w
- Identifier:
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- 990065191430108501
- cbmst343001
- ark:/87924/r43b69z6w
- ed227a0a-2978-4f31-8258-40dfe5748779
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