Chinese Flower Drawings: PD.130-1973

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Chinese Flower Drawings

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Unknown

Entities

Album

Description

Blue leather bound album containing 21 drawings. Covers with extensive gold tooling, endpapers with gold printed pattern. Leaves gold edged, alternate wove and laid paper, the drawings laid down upon the laid leaves.

Notes

History note: J. Webber Smith; H.R. Broughton

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1973) by Broughton, Henry Rogers, Major the Hon.

School or Style

Chinese

Components of the work

Support composed of paper
Leaf Height 476 mm Width 355 mm
Coverboard Height 492 mm Width 365 mm

Inscription or legends present

Text: G. RELLEW. BOOKBINDER DUBLIN
Location: Inside front cover, lower edge
Method of creation: Gold embossed

Text: NH/-/- / J.W.G. / ?M / NM.
Location: Front endpaper, verso
Method of creation: Graphite

Text: These Chinese Drawings were ordered for me by Captain Ed- / dington 95th Rgt in 1853. He was Captain of th Genadier [sic] / Company of the 95th - which Rgt. I then commanded. / In 1854 going into action at the Alma he threw away / a little Capote he had, which I had offered to carry on / my horse for him, saying that he should never want it / again - Shortly afterwards as we advanced over the beaten / enemy, he was Shot dead through the back by a wounded / Prussian Soldier, to whom he had given some brandy / and water as he passed him. / His younger brother half maddened at the Sight / rushed furiously on the enemy, and was shot to pieces. / On the arrival of these drawings in Europe the poor / widow requested me to accept them. / I leave the book to my daughter Caroline. / J. Webber Smith. / .MG. / May 1872.
Location: Album, f.1 recto
Method of creation: Brown ink