Holbeeke, Helen, Copy of Geology familiarly illustrated by Catherine Mary Webber, circa [1860?]
- Title(s):
- Copy of Geology familiarly illustrated by Catherine Mary Webber.
- Published/Created:
- Sutton Coldfield, Engand, circa [1860?]
- Physical Description:
- 31 drawings on 4 joined sheets : watercolor and pen and black ink ; 14 x 325 cm, accordion folded to 14 x 19 cm
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsQE31 .W43 1859aYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund[Request]
- Copyright Status:
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/13300727
- Related Content:
- View catalog record for the published version of Geology familiarly illustrated
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Notes:
- Watercolor copy of Catherine Mary Webber's Geology familiarly illustrated (published in 1859 by J.B. Goodinge). The copy faithfully reproduces the form and content of the published original: a semi-continuous series of images depicting geological strata, named, together with humorous visual puns on the geological names. "Oolite formation," for example, depicts a stratum of oolite, underneath a depiction of a woman whose dress has caught fire; "trap" depicts a geological trap, beneath the image of an unlucky hunter with foot ensnared in a leghold trap; "extensive denudation" depicts a stratum of Kentish rag, beneath the image of a man at the barber with denuded head.
The copy makes no reference to the author of the original, Catherine Mary Webber. The verso of the strip is signed in graphite: "Helen Holbeeke, Sutton Coldfield." Beneath this signature is a note in black ink: "I think that my aunt Helen Holbeeke must have drawn these about 1840. I recopied them in 1864/5 very indifferently [?]. Richard Holbeeke, 14.5.99." - Subject Terms:
- Caricatures and cartoon -- Great Britain.Geology -- Popular works.Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- Humor.Wit and humor, Pictorial.
- Form/Genre:
- Watercolors.
Ink drawings.
Copies (derivative objects)
Panoramas.
Puns (Visual works)
Accordion fold format (Binding)
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