Portraits of the Spruggins family / arranged by Richard Sucklethumkin Spruggins, Esq. ... MDCCCXXIX.
Published / Created:
Great Britain, 1829.
Physical Description:
1 v. ([96] p.) : ill. ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Archives & Manuscripts
Notes:
Walter Sneyd's Portraits of the Spruggins family (published in 1829) is a parody of contemporary family histories and similar works of nineteenth-century antiquaries, genealogists, and art historians. The work was for some time mis-attributed to Frances Parker, Countess of Morley. The text and illustrations were probably entirely the work of Sneyd, while Morley appears to have been responsible for drawing the lithographs from Sneyd's sketches. Sneyd (1809-1888) was an Oxford educated clergyman and a notable collector of medieval manuscripts. He was ordained in 1834, and thereafter lived at Denton House, near Oxford, until 1870, when he inherited Keele Hall, in Staffordshire. Cf. Nicolas Barker's introduction to the 1985 facsimile: The Spruggins gallery (Alburgh: Paradigm, 1985).
Subject Terms:
Sneyd, Walter, 1809–1888. | Morley, Frances Parker, Countess of, 1781–1857. | Aristocracy (Social class) -- Great Britain -- Caricatures and cartoons. | Aristocracy (Political science) -- Great Britain -- Caricatures and cartoons. | Caricatures and cartoons -- Great Britain. | English wit and humor, Pictorial. | Genealogy -- Great Britain -- Parodies, imitations, etc. | Satire, English -- 19th century.