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'I S' [The Royal Academy, London, in the nineteenth century]:Biblio.com

Lithographed Victorian satire on the Royal Academy. The Dolefulle Ballade of Arthur Scumble Now First Imprinted From Ye Originalle M.S. Embellished with Drawynges after Ye Quicke. Drophead title: 'Arthur Scumble or The yonge Probationere.'

20844London: Ford & West Imp. 54 Hatton Garden. 1852. 6pp. small 4to. Stitched into brown wraps with lithographed title on cover in pastiche of Gothic design including monogrammed initials 'IS' in shield with the letters picked out in red. In fair condition aged and worn. An extremely scarce item no copies found on OCLC WorldCat or COPAC whose text and illustrations cast light on the practices at the Royal Academy in the mid-Victorian period. Scumble is a glaze painting technique. The piece is a poem in four-line stanzas written in Wardour Street English beginning: 'Now lyth and listen Students all I come before ye here To tell the Mischance that befell A yonge Probationere Merrye it was in Londonne streetes The daye was faire to see When sallied forth an Artiste-youth To the Royal Academie.' The drophead title on the first page has the letters in the name 'Arthur Scumble' also picked out in red. Each page carries a highly-stylised illustration the last five in text the first in the margin and depicting a herald holding a flag on a pole and blowing into a horn. The other five illustrations show: the artist handing in his drawing; drawing a skeleton; drawing his 'Figure after the Antique'; running away with hat and glasses flying; and his body being searched after his suicide by two policemen. Running synopses in margins the first reading: 'Of a yonge Artiste hight Arthur Scumble & how he takes a Drawynge to ye Academie to obtain entrance therein as a Probationere.' There follow: 'He urgeth on ye Portere ye. necessitie of a speedie Decisionne by ye. Council.' 'He commenceth Worke at ye Academie' 'But lykes it lyttle' 'He fyndeth ye Skeleton tough' 'Commenceth hys Figure after the Antique. The Cause of much swearynge' 'and wyshynge the Curator and Keeper to be in a warmer place than wold be consistent with ease and comforte' 'He groaneth in spirit' 'He completeth hys figure' 'The Council decides on ye Drawynges wyth its usual Judgmente' 'Ye Decisionne of ye Councill is adverse – rejectynge ye Drawynges' 'Ye Rage of Scumble thereat' 'and' 'Astonishmente of ye. Portere' 'In dysorder of mind & Bodye he fleeth from ye Academye' 'He commyteth Suicide' 'Ye. Ende'. See IMage. London: Ford & West, Imp. 54, Hatton Garden. 1852. paperback

Richard M. Ford Ltd · Royaume-Uni280,00 £GB≈ 319,70 €

Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830), President of the Royal Academy and distinguished portrait painter:Biblio.com

Sir Thomas Lawrence President of the Royal Academy. Four manuscript documents from his sister's descendants the Aston family: a pedigree tracing Lawrence's mother back to William the Conqueror and three inventories of engravings and books.

20968Without place or date. English nineteenth century. ONE: Manuscript pedigree. On one side of a 49 x 38 cm piece of thick laid paper with no watermark. Folded three times. Discoloured and with light damp staining. The greater part of the pedigree is written in ink in a loose hand and traces the descent of Sir Thomas Lawrence's mother Lucy née Read to William the Conqueror. The pedigree is continued in pencil at the foot of the document with the eldest of the five children of Thomas and Lucy Lawrence named as 'Sir Thomas Lawrence P.R.A.' The pedigree continues through the youngest of the couple's five children the artist's sister Lucy who married John Meredith their daughter Lucy marrying John Aston and the couple having ten children. TWO: Three nineteenth-century manuscript inventories in different hands the first two of collections of engravings the last of books of engravings the three lists collected together with a brass stud. The first page of the first list aged and lightly-stained otherwise in fair condition. Clearly the property of a member of the Aston family and the last list suggesting preparation for sale. Only the first list relates to Lawrence. First 4pp. 4to bifolium a two-part list the first page headed 'The Lawrence Gallery Vol. I. Description engraver size' applying to the first two pages which list 47 artworks; the third page headed 'The Lawrence Gallery Vol. II' lists a further 47 artworks. The lists would appear to describe the contents of an actual album "book" in two volumes containing portraits of Lawrence and his contemporaries. The first four entries in the first volume are: '1 Frontispiece – Vignette. Sir Thomas Lawrence. Line engr: 2. Sir Thomas Lawrence. - Proof Line engravg. 3. King George IV. Outline lithograph with autograph. 4. The young King of Rome. Lithograph for picture – painted in outline engr by Lewis at Vienna'. Dimensions are given to the entries for the second volume e.g. '14 Madame Collier. Fine old mezzotint 17 ½ x 14 slightly spotted' and in some cases in the first e.g. '20 Prince Metternich mezzotint engr. Couleur 15 x 12 fine state'. The final entry of all is '47. Original Sepia Drawing of Sir Thomas Lawrence Studio.' with 'given to C R A' added in pencil the recipient being Lawrence's great-nephew Charles Reginald Aston. Second list 3pp. 4to of 42 items headed 'Line engravings after Sir Joshua Reynolds & others mounted on cardboard & bound in 2 folio vols. 27 x 20 – half morrocco sic cloth'. Third page headed 'Vol. II. Reynolds &c. engravings'. Engravers' names and dimensions are stated and entries are dated between 1777 and 1878. Third list 2pp. 4to of 'Books in Mahogany Box.' Fifteen unnumbered titles the earliest-dated being 'Ruins of Palmyra. 1753. Architectural' and the latest 'Grindley's Scenery of India Folio. 1830 coloured prints'. At end: 'Also some good Quarto illustrated Books in lower Bookcases.' Without place or date. (English, nineteenth century.) hardcover

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