Original Sketchbook
by RUSSELL, Bertha
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Nearly Fine
- Seller
-
Sheffield, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
LOTS OF CHILDREN
RUSSELL, Bertha, Boston, Mass. Original sketchbook, with the ticket of "A. A. Walker & Co., Artists Materials & Fine Stationary, 538 Washington Street, Boston." 49 pp. of pencil and pen-and-ink drawings. Oblong 4to, original calf backed cloth (spine worn), signed and dated inside front cover, "Bertha Russell/Boston Mass./ (August 1887). Bertha has affixed a small photograph which we assume is of herself to a 4 x 6 ¾" drawing she has pinned to the first sheet, dating it Dec. 26th (1881).
The only Bertha Russell we find that fits the bill of a young lady of Boston, married Samuel Ellsworth Winslow, Harvard '85, in 1889. She has been described as "the elegant Bertha Russell, an accomplished violinist." We don't notice any violins here, but there are a couple of cellos, or bass. She is mentioned in "Casey at the Bat. The Ballad of Sam Winslow," online, April 21, 2021.
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Details
- Seller
- Howard S. Mott, Inc (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 1290
- Title
- Original Sketchbook
- Author
- RUSSELL, Bertha
- Illustrator
- Bertha Russell
- Book Condition
- Used - Nearly Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1887
- Pages
- 50
- Size
- Oblong 4to
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Victorian era sketchbook of children
Terms of Sale
Howard S. Mott, Inc
About the Seller
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