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Call Number:

PH-02316

Collection Name:

Poets In the Pulpit

Creator:

Cundall, Joseph, 1818-1895 (1818-09-22 - 1895-01-10)

Haweis, H. R. (Hugh Reginald), 1839-1901 (1838 - 1901)

Mudd, James, 1821-1906 (1821 - circa 1906)

unidentified photographer

No. of Items:

7 photographs in 1 bound volume

Span Dates:

1883

Description:

Photographically illustrated book by H. R. (Hugh Reginald) Haweis (British, 1838-1901) titled Poets In the Pulpit (London: S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1883). The book includes seven mounted woodburytype portraits that follow.

958:0236:0001 -- Shakespeare. (The Stratford Bust and Memorial);
958:0236:0002 -- Longfellow;
958:0236:0003 -- Tennyson;
958:0236:0004 -- Browning;
958:0236:0005 -- Keble;
958:0236:0006 -- Herbert;
958:0236:0007 -- Wordsworth.

Below the portrait of Shakespeare, Helmut Gernsheim wrote: "Photogr. by Gundall 163 New Bond Street in 1864. This bust is assumed to be sculptured by Gerard Johnson, from a cast taken from Shakespeare's face after death. An inscription below the portrait of Tennyson reads: "phot. by Jas. Mudd, Manchester".

Accession No(s):

958:0236:0001-0007

Location(s):

PN 1077 H27 1883 HRC-P (958:0236:0001-0007)
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