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Folger call number: DA 690 N6 M2 Ex.Ill. (vol.6, before p.581 of printed text)
Folger holdings ID: 345572
Accession Number: 157393
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Each item is labeled with the name of the character portrayed followed by the phrase "a Newcastle eccentric." Items were executed on wove paper. Unsigned. Each item is a full figure portrait History: Conception of the figures' heads is similar to portrayals found in a group line engraving added to the same volume (after p. 580). The engraving was published by William Dodd, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1861. Engraving taken after a painting by Henry Parlee Parker entitled "The eccentric characters of Newcastle." Provenance: Drawings have been tipped into the 6th volume of an extra-illustrated copy of A descriptive and historical account of Newcastle Upon Tyne ... by Eneas Mackenzie ... Newcastle Upon Tyne : Mackenzie & Dodd, 1827. The book was originally published in 2 volumes but has been extended to 7 through the addition of engravings, lithographs, original drawings, and other materials. Although the book was published in 1827, the grangerizing was not completed until at least 1861, according to dates on added materials. The volumes bear the bookplate of George Dunn of Woolley Hall and are listed as item no. 4362 in the Sotheby catalog of the sale of Dunn's library held in 1915. The FSL purchased the volumes from Bernard Halliday in April of 1956. The volumes are entered in Halliday's catalog no. 274, item no. 788 Subject: Drawings are portraits of individual street people or characters in the town of Newcastle, circa mid-nineteenth century. The following characters are portrayed: Blind Willie, Whin Bobby, Captain Starkey, and Pussy Willie This record contains unverified data from old cards and may contain incorrect or incomplete text. Please consult Curator for assistance
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attributed name: Parker, Henry Parlee, 1795-1873