UVA History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building-addition 89
Content Description
This addition to MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains one undated linen-bound Victorian-era collage and watercolor album compiled by a child or adolescent. There are thirty-five watercolor and pencil drawings with clipped monograms pasted throughout the images. Some of the illustrations are captioned in pencil in French, though the occasional monogram hails from London or Birmingham. Some more robust clippings offer the names of French hotels, restaurants, and attractions. Illustrated scenes include a vase, a fan, a greyhound, a chessboard, a house, a violinist, a moth, birds building a nest, and a fox house. There is also a cartoon of a French woman arguing with a German soldier, in the uniform worn during the Franco-Prussian War, dating the album to around 1870.
Acquisition Type
Purchase
Provenance
Purchased from Capitol Hill Books, 17 October 2025.
Language of Description
English
Script of Description
Latin
Restrictions Apply
No
Dates
- Creation: c. 1870
Full Extent
0.04 Cubic Feet (One legal-sized file folder) ; bound volume, measuring 14 x 22 cm
Language of Materials
English
French
Metadata Rights Declarations
- License: This record is made available under an Universal 1.0 Public Domain Dedication Creative Commons license. The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library of the University of Virginia makes its bibliographic records and the metadata contained therein available for public use under the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Designation.
Inventory
One album