Skip to main content

"Butter Fly's Ball": 4027

Awaiting location update

Titles

"Butter Fly's Ball"

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Belch, W.

Entities

Categories

Description

Album bound in red morocco leather with gold tooling. Contains 20 gold edged leaves, and two yellow endpapers. The leaves alternate between heavy and light-weight papers, the drawings laid down upon recto of heavy-weight papers. Eight drawings pasted to leaves. See poem by William Roscoe (1753-1831), "The Butterfly's Ball, and the Grasshopper's Feast".

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1923) by Perceval, Spencer George

Dating

Production date: circa AD 1810

School or Style

British

Components of the work

Support composed of paper Height 76 mm Width 91 mm
Leaf Height 161 mm Width 94 mm
Cover Board Height 166 mm Width 103 mm

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: BUTTER / FLY'S / BALL
  • Location: Spine
  • Method of creation: Gold tooled
  • Text: 321 Drawings. - W. Belch's BUTTERFLY / BALL, 8 Original and very clever little / Sepia Drawings, 3 1/2 in. by 2 3/4 in. each, made / for the edition published and sold by W. Belch, / High St., Borough, mounted and bound in / small vol, red morocco gilt, £1 11s 6d / N.D., circa 1810
  • Location: Front endpaper pasted to inside of coverboard, upper left
  • Method of creation: Printed cutting
  • Text: 8 drawings 1/11/6
  • Location: Front endpaper, verso, upper left
  • Method of creation: Graphite

Identification numbers

Accession number: 4027
Primary reference Number: 48591

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 3 August 2020

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

Citation for print

This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:

The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) ""Butter Fly's Ball"" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/48591 Accessed: 2024-04-20 02:10:47

Citation for Wikipedia

To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:

{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/48591 |title="Butter Fly's Ball" |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-04-20 02:10:47|publisher=The University of Cambridge}}

API call for this record

To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:

https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-48591

More objects and works of art you might like

An image of Drawing

Ophrys Muscifera or Fly Orchis

Accession Number: PD.105-1973.68

An image of Ball

Ball

Accession Number: E.GA.3021.1943

An image of Netsuke

Netsuke

Accession Number: O.37-1991

An image of Beaker and cover

Beaker and cover

Accession Number: MAR.M.44 & A-1912

Suggested products from Curating Cambridge

Featured image for the project: Snowy Landscape at Eragny - Christmas card pack

Snowy Landscape at Eragny - Christmas card pack

£7.00

Featured image for the project: Foliate Decoration (Illuminated letter C) - Christmas card pack

Foliate Decoration (Illuminated letter C) - Christmas card pack

£7.00

Featured image for the project: Cambridge 800 by Quentin Blake - Tea towel

Cambridge 800 by Quentin Blake - Tea towel

£10.00

Featured image for the project: Franklin, Crick and Watson by Quentin Blake - Fine bone china mug

Franklin, Crick and Watson by Quentin Blake - Fine bone china mug

£12.50

You might be interested in this...

Featured image for the project: Walk C: Stoke-by-Nayland to East Bergholt

Walk C: Stoke-by-Nayland to East Bergholt

Featured image for the project: Walk A: East Bergholt to Dedham via Flatford

Walk A: East Bergholt to Dedham via Flatford

Featured image for the project: Walk B: Langham to East Bergholt via Dedham

Walk B: Langham to East Bergholt via Dedham

Featured image for the project: Walk D: Dedham, Flatford, East Bergholt Circular

Walk D: Dedham, Flatford, East Bergholt Circular

Sign up for updates

Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...

University of Cambridge Museums logo
Cambridge City Council logo
Arts Council England Logo
Research England logo