archives.nypl.org -- Anne Wagner album (original) (raw)
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Physical description
1 volume (164 leaves), ill, 8 cm; 1 volume (164 leaves), ill, 8 cm
Preferred Citation
Anne Wagner album, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library
Repository
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle
Access to materials
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Friendship album kept by Anne Wagner, with entries by her niece, the poet Felicia Dorothea Browne (later Hemans), and other friends and family members, mostly between 1795 and 1805. Contains inscriptions and quotations, embellished with watercolors, braided locks of hair, collages, paper cutouts, portrait silhouettes, etc. Bound in contemporary green morocco, gilt edges and spine, red spine label, with title: Souvenir D'Amitié.
Biographical/historical information
Anne Wagner, a resident of Liverpool, England, was the aunt of the poet Felicia Hemans.
Scope and arrangement
Friendship album kept by Anne Wagner, with entries by her niece, the poet Felicia Dorothea Browne (later Hemans), and other friends and family members, mostly between 1795 and 1805. Contains inscriptions and quotations, embellished with watercolors, braided locks of hair, collages, paper cutouts, portrait silhouettes, etc. Bound in contemporary green morocco, gilt edges and spine, red spine label, with title: Souvenir D'Amitié.