A sort of catalogue of part of my Americanesque collection, in parts, between 1840-1885
A hand-kept catalogue by William Henry Huntington (1820-1885), compiled between 1840 and 1885, recording parts of his private collection of American-themed prints, photographs and drawings. The pictures are a sepia photograph of a white marble group of George Washington and Benjamin Franklin signing a treaty, a stereograph of a snow sculpture and equestrian statue in a park, a pencil sketch of a circular medallion with a mountain scene, and an engraved portrait of Franklin in a fur-collared coat. A designer could take the crisp oval vignette framing, the handwritten annotations on the album page, and the engraved portrait style for period-appropriate layouts.
